Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder

Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to instrumentality up respective gigabytes of retention space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the spot successful its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093), which "improves disk abstraction usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file."

The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal record is installed connected Windows 11 PCs by default, and is related to app permissions. Several users person had issues with this record implicit the past fewer months, with 1 idiosyncratic saying the record took up 500GB of retention connected their device. Others person reported the record increasing to likewise ample amounts, ranging from 12GB …

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