{"id":748800,"date":"2026-07-07T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:31:06","slug":"microsoft-fixes-storage-hogging-windows-11-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748800\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by default, and is related to app permissions. Several users have had issues with this file over the past few months, with one person saying the file <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/techsupport\/comments\/1kwtfcn\/my_harddrive_is_growing_slowly_with_500gb_of\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took up 500GB<\/a> of storage on their device. Others have reported the file growing to similarly large amounts, ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/techsupport\/comments\/1tx7thi\/capabilityaccessmanagerdbwal_growing_huge_12gb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12GB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/answers\/questions\/5815087\/capabilityaccessmanager-is-devouring-my-hard-drive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/WindowsHelp\/comments\/1tolfhj\/windows_11_fixed_c_drive_kept_filling_up_because\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200GB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Microsoft doesn\u2019t explain what went wrong here, but Windows Latest says the file may be growing because Windows 11 \u201ckeeps logging repeated events for access requests or other privacy controls, such as location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">If you\u2019re affected by this issue, you can install the update now by heading to your Settings menu, clicking \u201cWindows Update\u201d &gt; Advanced options, and then choosing \u201cCheck for optional updates.\u201d From there, you can select and install the June 2026 update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by default, and is related to app permissions. Several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1281,3,172,74,12655],"class_list":["post-748800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}