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# Guide: moving your Claude Code chat between PowerShell, Desktop and the web
- URL: https://globalfeed.ai/en/guide-moving-your-claude-code-chat-between-powershell-desktop-and-the-web/
- Published: 2026-08-31T17:16:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-31T17:59:37.000Z
- Description: From resuming yesterday's session to moving it into the Desktop app, pulling a web session into the terminal, and backing it all up: four moves, step by step with screens.
- Author: Şevki Özen
- Tags: claude, guide, claude code, x-claudeai, dil-en, elle, editor-yazisi, video

When you work with Claude Code, a conversation is not locked to one place: a chat you start in PowerShell can move to the desktop app, and a cloud session from the web can be pulled into your terminal. This guide walks through the four moves step by step, assuming nothing. One ground rule: these features work with a Claude subscription; the transfer commands are unavailable on API-key-only auth.

## 1) Pick up where you left off

Back in the project folder, you have two options. **claude --continue** reopens the most recent chat as-is. **claude --resume** lists every past session: arrow keys to move, Space for a preview, / to search, and Ctrl+A extends the list to every project on the machine.

![claude --continue and --resume](https://globalfeed.ai/content/images/2026/08/rehber-adim1-en.png)

## 2) Move a chat from PowerShell to the Desktop app

An important fact first: the terminal and the Desktop app keep SEPARATE chat histories; neither sees the other automatically. The official bridge is a single command: type **/desktop** inside your session. The session is saved, handed to the Desktop app, and the terminal exits; the same conversation opens in the app right where you left it.

![moving with /desktop](https://globalfeed.ai/content/images/2026/08/rehber-adim2-en.png)

## 3) Pull a web session into the terminal (teleport)

Cloud sessions on claude.ai/code live in their own world, but there is a bridge to the terminal. Inside a cloud chat, type **/teleport** and it prints the exact command for you to paste; the web UI offers the same via **Open in > Terminal**. Running **claude --teleport** checks out the branch, fetches the full conversation history, and you carry on. Note: it is a copy; new terminal work does not sync back to the web session.

![claude --teleport](https://globalfeed.ai/content/images/2026/08/rehber-adim3-en.png)

## 4) Back it up: /export

To keep a conversation as a file, type **/export backup.txt** inside the chat; the whole thing is saved as readable text. Skip the filename and you get a menu: clipboard or file. Transcripts live under **\~/.claude/projects** and are kept for 30 days by default, so /export is the safe way to preserve the important ones.

![/export backup](https://globalfeed.ai/content/images/2026/08/rehber-adim4-en.png)

The reverse direction exists too: to send a Desktop session to the cloud, use the **Continue in** menu on the session toolbar and pick **Claude Code on the Web** (it wants a clean git state and opens a new cloud session). That is all of it: four commands and one menu, and your conversations now travel with you.

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