ChatGPT and Codex desktop on Mac can silently fill your disk with crash dumps
Sorted AI18 OctA bug report open on OpenAI's Codex GitHub since 2 June says the Codex desktop app on macOS, now part of the unified ChatGPT desktop app, keeps writing crash dump files in the background with no limit, while the app itself keeps working. Sixteen users in the thread report the problem, most recently on 17 October with a current build. Reported sizes range from 4.9 GB in a day to one user's 323 GB across two folders, about 35% of their disk. One user traced it to the crash handler crashing and dumping itself about once a second, roughly 15 GB a day. The issue is labelled as a bug, and no fix has been announced in the thread.
Why it matters: If you use ChatGPT or Codex on a Mac, check the Crashpad folders under ~/Library/Application Support/Codex and ~/Library/Application Support/com.openai.codex/web; deleting the files in their pending folders frees the space.
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