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Claude Crash Reports
Claude on Windows uses Chromium's Crashpad crash reporter to write minidumps, metadata sidecar files, and upload state records after the app or one of its renderer processes crashes. Those reports are kept in Crashpad's reports folders so developers can inspect past failures, but they can accumulate long after the useful diagnostic window has passed. Kudu removes Claude crash reports older than one week from the standard and packaged Windows locations while leaving crash settings, pending application state, accounts, and preferences untouched.
Why clean Claude Crash Reports?
- Repeated Claude renderer or GPU-process crashes leave behind many Crashpad minidumps and metadata files, and the visible symptom is Claude's app data folder growing even though your chats and files have not.
- A burst of startup crashes can create dozens of reports in a short time, so after a bad update or extension conflict you may notice disk usage climbing every time Claude fails to open cleanly.
- Old Crashpad reports are only historical diagnostics, and keeping months of them usually means wasted SSD space with no effect on your current conversations, settings, or login state.
- On systems with tight profile quotas or redirected AppData folders, accumulated crash dumps can push Claude's roaming data over limits, showing up as sync warnings, profile size complaints, or failed writes to other app data.
- If Claude has been unstable for a period, the reports folder can become a record of every failed renderer launch, and users typically observe many similarly dated .dmp and metadata files piling up after each crash.
- Cleaning only reports older than a week preserves recent crash evidence for troubleshooting while removing stale dumps that no longer help explain current behavior, reducing clutter without affecting pending application state.
What gets cleaned
Cache paths Kudu targets
Windows
%AppData%/Claude/Crashpad/reports |
%LocalAppData%/Packages/Claude_pzs8sxrjxfjjc/LocalCache/Roaming/Claude/Crashpad/reports |
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