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Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space

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Hacker News | Oct 17, 2026 | AIorNot

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changed the title [-]Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps, growing to ~5GB[/-] [+]Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps, growing without any limit: +5GB per day at least[/+]on Jun 9, 2026Still happening on the current build, and at a much larger scale. Free space fell to 1. 4 GB before I found it. Free space went from 1. 4 GB to 50+ GB within minutes, and the delete is still running (millions of small files).

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