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Codex Desktop Crash Reports
Codex Desktop uses Chromium's Crashpad crash reporter on Windows to write minidump .dmp files, metadata .json records, and temporary upload state into its Crashpad reports folders whenever the app or one of its renderer processes crashes. Those reports exist for post-crash diagnostics and failed upload retries, but they can accumulate long after a problem is gone. Kudu removes Codex Desktop crash reports older than one week from the standard and packaged-app Crashpad report locations without touching your chats, account data, settings, or saved work.
Why clean Codex Desktop Crash Reports?
- Repeated renderer or GPU-process crashes can leave behind many Crashpad minidumps and metadata files, and the only symptom you may notice is Codex using far more AppData space than expected.
- Failed or deferred crash-report uploads keep old .dmp and .json entries in the reports queue, so disk usage keeps growing even though the crashes happened days ago.
- After a buggy Codex release or extension interaction causes a crash loop, Crashpad can generate a new report on nearly every launch attempt, leaving dozens of timestamped dumps behind before the issue is fixed.
- Windows Store packaged builds can write duplicate-looking reports under LocalCache Roaming paths, which makes storage use confusing when you inspect disk space with Settings or WinDirStat.
- Old Crashpad reports do not improve current app performance, but they do clutter support investigations because you may see stale crash dates and obsolete dump files mixed with recent failures.
- On small system drives, accumulated crash dumps can contribute to low free-space warnings, and users often only discover the cause after noticing Codex folders consuming hundreds of megabytes.
- Cleaning week-old reports removes diagnostic leftovers from past crashes while preserving current logs and live app data, so you recover space without affecting sign-in state or preferences.
What gets cleaned
Cache paths Kudu targets
Windows
%AppData%/Codex/Crashpad/reports |
%LocalAppData%/Packages/OpenAI.Codex_2p2nqsd0c76g0/LocalCache/Roaming/Codex/Crashpad/reports |
%LocalAppData%/Packages/OpenAI.Codex_2p2nqsd0c76g0/LocalCache/Roaming/Codex/web/Codex/Crashpad/reports |
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