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Migrate Claude Cowork From a Personal Account to Teams

The Lilac Team • July 31, 2026 • 4 min read

Claude's one-click Teams migration doesn't move your Cowork data. This unofficial workaround carries your scheduled tasks, Spaces, memory, and chat history over, step by step, on Mac and Windows.

Claude recently released a one-click solution for moving a personal account to a Teams account. It works well, with one significant gap: your Cowork data (scheduled tasks, Spaces, memory, chat history, and settings) doesn't move with it.

For most teams, that data is the bulk of what they want to carry over.

There is an unofficial workaround that isn't documented anywhere. Proceed carefully, as it isn't guaranteed to work. That said, we've used it successfully in two separate migrations for our clients, and we're sharing it here in the hope it helps others.

Before you start

Sign in to the Claude desktop app with your new account and open Cowork at least once. This creates the new account's folder so there's somewhere to copy to.

If you're on Mac

1. Quit the Claude app completely. Press Cmd + Q.
2. Open the storage folder. In Finder, choose Go → Go to Folder… (Cmd + Shift + G), paste this, and press Return: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/local-agent-mode-sessions
3. Show hidden files. Press Cmd + Shift + . (period). Some of the items you're copying start with a dot and are hidden by default.
4. Find your old and new account folders. You'll see folders with long names made of letters and numbers, one for each account you've signed in with. Switch to List view (Cmd + 2) and sort by Date Created. The older folder is your previous account; the newer one is your current account.
5. Open the old account folder, then the folder inside it. Inside, you'll see your Cowork data. Files like scheduled-tasks.json and spaces.json, and folders like memory, spaces, and several starting with local_.
6. Select everything except the skip-list. Press Cmd + A to select all, then Cmd-click to deselect these (skip any that don't exist):
   • cowork_plugins (folder)
   • rpm (folder)
   • .project-cache (folder)
7. Copy. Press Cmd + C.
8. Go to the new account's inner folder. Click the back arrow twice to return to local-agent-mode-sessions, open the newer account folder, then the folder inside it.
9. Paste. Press Cmd + V. If asked whether to replace existing items, choose Replace.
10. Relaunch Claude. Your tasks, Spaces, memory, and history will reappear.

If you're on Windows

1. Quit the Claude app completely. Right-click the Claude icon in the system tray and choose Quit.
2. Open the storage folder. Press Windows + R, paste this, and press Enter: %AppData%\Claude\local-agent-mode-sessions
3. Show hidden items. In the View tab (or View → Show), check Hidden items.
4. Find your old and new account folders. You'll see folders with long names made of letters and numbers, one for each account. Switch to Details view and sort by Date created. The older folder is your previous account; the newer one is your current account.
5. Open the old account folder, then the folder inside it. You'll see your Cowork data. Files like scheduled-tasks.json and spaces.json, and folders like memory, spaces, and several starting with local_.
6. Select everything except the skip-list. Press Ctrl + A to select all, then Ctrl-click to deselect these (skip any that don't exist):
   • cowork_plugins (folder)
   • rpm (folder)
   • .project-cache (folder)
   • cowork-gb-cache.json
   • audit.jsonl and .audit-key
7. Copy. Press Ctrl + C.
8. Go to the new account's inner folder. Click the back arrow twice to return to local-agent-mode-sessions, open the newer account folder, then the folder inside it.
9. Paste. Press Ctrl + V. If asked whether to replace existing items, choose Replace.
10. Relaunch Claude. Your tasks, Spaces, memory, and history will reappear.

Good to know

• Locally-installed plugins won't transfer. The cowork_plugins folder is in the skip-list because it contains paths tied to your old account. After recovering, reinstall any local plugins through the app's plugin settings. (Plugins from the marketplace will re-download automatically.)
• Project links come back empty. If a recovered task or Space was linked to a Project from your old account, it will reappear but the link will be empty. Open its settings and re-select the Project from your new account.
• Some files may not exist if you never used that feature. That's fine, just copy what's there.
• If you're not sure which folder is old vs. new: the old one's inner folder will have more files and older modified dates; the new one will be mostly empty.
• If you've already been using Cowork on your new account: pasting will replace files like scheduled-tasks.json and spaces.json with the old versions, so any tasks or Spaces you created on the new account before recovering will be overwritten. Chat-history folders (the ones starting with local_) won't conflict; they'll sit alongside.