Why is there a debug file on my computer and how to I fix it

Hello GBorn,

thank you for the Information.

In Windows 10 Home for Edge Crashpad should be found under:

C:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Crashpad

Unfortunatly I could not find the Folder AppData (C:\Users[username]\AppData).

Do you have an idea what could be the problem?

Thank you.

PS: I have administrator rights on the computer.

Hi, You need to replace [username] with your username of the account. Or use like this:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Crashpad

En outre, lorsque je veux supprimer le petit fichier « .log » cette action est refusée et le message suivant est généré: (dupliqué !!) alors que le navigateur Edge n’est absolument pas ouvert!

Hello GBorn,

thank you for the Information.

In Windows 10 Home for Edge Crashpad should be found under:

C:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Crashpad

Unfortunatly I could not find the Folder AppData (C:\Users[username]\AppData).

Do you have an idea what could be the problem?

Thank you.

PS: I have administrator rights on the computer.

I was saving a file using fireshot and clicked on cancel button in the save dialog box. Everything went for a toss. Multiple folders got deleted within the parent directory and this new file was created. Since everyone is talking about browsers, I was using firefox at that time and there were some PDFs being viewed in Microsoft EDGE. There is something seriously amiss here as I have lost nearly 64 MB of data and 390 odd files.

In the debug file it says [1010/132558.157:ERROR:directory_reader_win.cc(43)] FindFirstFile: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3)

The debug file is created for Chromium 68x based browsers randomly. There is now an issue entry in Google's bug tracker for Chromium. And maybe it helps to delete the content of the folder Crashpad.

Chromium 68 browsers (Chrome, Edge etc.) create debug.log files