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Codex Desktop Consumes Disk Space via Repeated Crashpad Dump Generation

·2026.10.18 15:33

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On macOS, background crash dumps accumulate and consume disk space in Codex Desktop even while the app is functioning normally.

Details

User reports indicate that on macOS, the Codex Desktop and integrated ChatGPT/Codex apps continuously generate background crash dumps that consume disk space, even though the apps remain usable.

In some environments, the browser_crashpad_handler process itself crashes and restarts repeatedly, resulting in the generation of multiple dump files per second.

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