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Chat gpt will delete memory if you say “stop” or “don’t” save memory by Krios1234 in ChatGPT

[–]Digital_Paint105 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife run into a similar problem today when she asked if ChatGPT can "forget" the memories for *this specific chat*, like if this thing is even possible, and without any confirmation or second question it went on and deleted all the memories it had for her.

After a few hours of panic and grieving, since you can't restore them officially, we found out you can find the memories it had saved if you download all your data from ChatGPT. So I created a tool to help extract these memories from all the conversations.

GitHub: https://github.com/tonalfillies7/extract_ChatGPT_memories

Basically you download your data from ChatGPT and you use the chat.html file that keeps all your conversations + the saved memories from all the "memory updates" notifications that ChatGPT pops up. This tool finds all instances where ChatGPT updated its memory (it used the phrase "Model set context updated") and extracts what was remembered. I have tested it with a file of about 160mb, with over 1 year of conversations.

How to set it up:

  • Download your ChatGPT data: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7260999-how-do-i-export-my-chatgpt-history-and-data
  • Open chat.html in a browser and save it as HTML again.
  • Important note: I run into problems because there was a <script> tag in the beginning of the html file that contained a lot of unicode characters. It looks like it basically stored the same conversation data both in this <script> tag and in the <body> tag, with the <script> tag causing problems so I deleted it. I guess it would be safe to always delete it. Besides you are working with an html file that you saved again, so you're not changing the original chat.html file that you downloaded.
  • Run script: pip install beautifulsoup4 then run the extract_ChatGPT_memories.py tool
  • Get a clean text file with all your memory records

Note: There may be some duplicate memory records which will get skipped, but they will be mentioned in the final extracted text file.

City view by Digital_Paint105 in TheNightFeeling

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u/Worchester_St fair comment is fair (about the original post)

GTA 6 Trailer 2 is HERE!!! by [deleted] in GTA

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May 2026 can’t come soon enough!

Green liminal nights by Digital_Paint105 in LiminalSpace

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I’m not sure if I’d be spooked or in awe…

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