Configure Windbg Symbol Path
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Configure Windbg Symbol Path
There is no need whatsoever to download symbol packages anymore. All needed Windows symbol files are obtained from the MSDL Symbol Server as each dump runs. Within a year, you'll find your symbol folder size at several GBs.
You can delete the symbol file folder at anytime. Windbg runs will repopulate it.
When running Windbg, it will first check
c:\symbols. If not found, the symbol file will be downloaded and placed into
c:\symbols. You can change the symbol drive and directory to whatever you would prefer -
Code:
SRV*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Open Windbg (no dump file); hit
CTRL-S;
paste the above path into the small screen that appeared; Click on "File"; click on "Save Workspace"
Hit
CTRL-S again to assure that the symbol file path is there.
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