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Codex Desktop Crash Reports
Codex Desktop uses Chromium's Crashpad crash reporter on Windows to write minidump .dmp files, metadata .txt files, and pending upload records into its Crashpad reports folders whenever the app or one of its embedded web processes crashes. Those reports exist for diagnostics and bug reporting, but older copies can accumulate across the standard desktop install and the packaged Microsoft Store paths. Kudu removes only crash reports older than one week, freeing space without touching your prompts, account session, settings, or project files.
Why clean Codex Desktop Crash Reports?
- Repeated renderer or GPU-process crashes leave behind multiple Crashpad minidumps and metadata files, and over time the reports folders grow noticeably in AppData even though the crashes already happened
- If Codex Desktop has been unstable during updates or extension-like web content failures, each launch can add another dump, so users see disk usage climb after every crash-restart cycle
- Old Crashpad reports are historical diagnostics, not active runtime cache, so keeping weeks of stale .dmp files provides little value while consuming SSD space on smaller Windows system drives
- Store and non-Store installs can each maintain their own Crashpad reports path, which leads to duplicate-looking crash archives and makes AppData usage seem larger than expected
- Large collections of old dump files make manual troubleshooting harder because recent crashes are buried among outdated reports, so cleaning leaves only current evidence if a new issue appears
- Crash reports do not contain your saved chats, local settings, or login credentials, so removing older ones reduces clutter without affecting how Codex Desktop starts or syncs
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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Common questions about Codex Desktop Crash Reports
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