Codex 28 · Theme · #58

Local storage usage in Codex

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4 problems · 1 idea · 2 mixed · first reported 8 Oct 2026

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@thsottiaux small bug report from last night: Drive is often down to a few hundred MB free (Rust project builds eat a lot). Codex auto-upgraded in the background, downloaded a ~1GB package, filled the drive and froze the machine. Didn’t click any update button. Codex itself…

@slime5409 on X ↗ · 24 Oct 2026
Mixed
this is a decent ship, codex is the main reason im running out of space

@b96ngh on X ↗ · 14 Oct 2026
Mixed
If this does what I think it will do, I will absolutely love this update. I have to clear my disk space up about twice a day when I have the codex running!

@brad_amor on X ↗ · 14 Oct 2026
Problem
du -h shows ~/.codex (my old version) is using 72 MB. That's about 0.03% of my disk. - not "relevant for most codex/work users", so are you going to reset us or reneg?https://t.co/6TDhdSxppy

@AccordingToSamu on X ↗ · 14 Oct 2026
Problem
I built my own compaction software to deal with that. My .codex chats filled up a terabyte of hard drive space it was insane. However for all the inactive chats that were not pinned and were also more than two weeks old the only thing I cared about saving from them was the actual…

@DeathStarRobot on X ↗ · 14 Oct 2026
Problem
Lol, same. Codex just added 150gb+ to my disk today. Still tracking down why..

@OneStoryRoad on X ↗ · 14 Oct 2026
Idea
@thsottiaux You probably won't read this, but just in case: you could fix the storage space issue. Over time, Codex's local conversation logs take up a huge amount of space due to repeated images and other data. I have to deal with storage issues caused by Codex every week.

@adinorcz on X ↗ · 8 Oct 2026

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15 Oct 2026, 17:13 UTC

“Leftover local data remains” was merged into this theme: JEV judged them the same problem.
15 Oct 2026, 05:24 UTC

Renamed from “Local logs use disk space” to “Local storage usage in Codex” as more people described it.
15 Oct 2026, 05:24 UTC

“Unexpected local disk growth” was merged into this theme: JEV judged them the same problem.

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