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Urgent Reminder: Secure Your Gemini Projects Now to Prevent Data Loss

In the evolving landscape of digital communication, safeguarding your project data is more critical than ever. Recent reports indicate that the Gemini platform, a popular tool for managing chat-based projects, is experiencing significant technical issues that could jeopardize your data integrity. This article aims to inform users about these problems and provide practical steps to protect your work.

Understanding the Issue: Why Are Projects Being Deleted?

Several users, including myself, have observed that Gemini is unexpectedly deleting projects and chat histories. The root cause appears to be a serious bug related to the platform’s connection handling. According to Gemini’s support responses, the platform encounters connection disruptions with ongoing chats. Instead of attempting to re-establish the connection seamlessly, Gemini generates a new chat instance bearing the same identifier and title.

This behavior results in a critical problem: any information accumulated after this point—such as code snippets, images, scripts, and project files—becomes inaccessible or is outright lost. The platform currently offers no mechanism to recover these affected chats or prevent this behavior once it occurs.

Why Is This Happening?

The core issue stems from a bug where, upon losing connection, Gemini does not reconnect to the existing chat instance. Instead, it creates a new one with the same ID. This confusing process leads to the original chat’s content being overwritten or left unrecoverable, especially if users continue to interact without realizing the switch.

Practical Steps to Protect Your Work

Given the severity of this issue, immediate action is advised to prevent data loss:

1. Do Not Rely on Built-In Export Features
   The internal export tools, including those built into Google or Gemini itself, are currently unreliable due to ongoing bugs. Do not depend on them for backups.

2. Use a Reliable Export Extension
   Instead, utilize trusted third-party extensions or tools specifically designed for chat export. These tools can help you save your project data in a secure, external format.

3. Monitor Your Chat Instances Carefully
   If Gemini’s chat window starts acting erratically—such as creating new chats with the same ID without your knowledge—immediately verify this behavior. Open your account in a separate window and compare active chat IDs and content to confirm whether a glitch has occurred.

4. Backup Regularly and Promptly
   Before performing any refresh or reload of your chat window, save all the important components of your project—HTML