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I'm considering uploading a crash dump, but if it might contain the text of my documents, I'd rather not. Does it contain sensitive information? If so is there a way to separate it from useful stuff?

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  • No, and therefore not needed.
    – soandos
    Jun 3, 2011 at 5:45
  • Thanks, but how do you know? What does it contain?
    – nnbc
    Jun 3, 2011 at 5:59
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    Open it and read it.
    – Joe Internet
    Jun 3, 2011 at 6:07
  • @JoeInternet not sure if you mean this, but also a good idea to search for sensitive words in the dump with a hex editor (although I do it in total commander lister; or with strings command + grep).
    – n611x007
    Aug 28, 2013 at 18:03

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Crash dumps don't contain document contents - generally they contain the full stack traces, error logs.

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    Feel free to verify for yourself by opening the .dmp in VS2010.
    – soandos
    Jun 3, 2011 at 6:12
  • VS2010 was a helpful mention.
    – nnbc
    Jun 3, 2011 at 6:33
  • There are different kind of dumps AFAIK. I don't know about yours, but if you create a dump file with right click > create dump in task manager, of a process, it contains undo/redo history, unsaved documents, and even saved documents, for me. I don't know if any/which of these stuff is in other kind of dumps, but it is good to know this.
    – n611x007
    Aug 28, 2013 at 18:01

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