vlc crashdump file is huge!

[qbw649]

I recently was using Diskeeper to defragmant my hard drive and I was reading the results and it showed a huge VLC file located at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\vlc On my system it was 54GB! Can I stop the file from being generated and or delete it? Does anyone know more about this?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Delete it.

[qbw649]

Thank you!

[HMVincent]

Twice in the last 2 weeks the crashdump file has been > 30Gb. I am using VLC 1.0.5. I find out about the file when WinXP Pro warns me I'm running out of disk space (my C: partition is 40Gb, I keep data elsewhere). I found the file itself, the first time, by running xxcopy /lz/s/zs/h c:\ /sz:100M- (show me filenames and their sizes under C:\ and its subdirectories that are 100Mb or larger, and may be hidden files).

Why is this file written? How can I prevent it? I've seen that after I close VLC, there may still be a VLC process listed by the Task Manager.

[VLC_help]

Crashdump is created when VLC crashes, but I cannot think any reason why it would over 30GB.

[bacardi95]

the reason why the crashdump is that big is. because the first times he warns you and ask you if you want to sent a crash report to vlc team. and when you press no. it will make a file in your documents. so the next time you start vlc and it crashes again then it goes again in that file. and that file will become bigger and bigger each time you press no

[VLC_help]

There is a size limit for crashdump in newer VLC versions.