BrowserMetrics

Okay, here’s a temporary fix* to try if you need the disk space before this gets fixed (I’m not at my computer and so haven’t tested it yet):

1. Close Edge
2. Delete existing files from the “BrowserMetrics” folder
3. Open the “Properties” window for the “BrowserMetrics” folder, and remove all permissions for your username (optionally except for “Read” permission)
4. Reopen Edge, and check for the results (after say, 10 minutes and then a few hours later).

If that doesn’t work, instead of step 3 above, try:

3a. Delete the BrowserMetrics folder itself
3b. Create a new empty text file called “BrowserMetrics” in the place of the deleted directory
3c. Make sure the new file does not have a file extension (e.g. “.txt”)

Hopefully that will block Edge from creating new metrics files there.

If you don’t need the disk space right now, though, please don’t do that yet so you can continue helping with the troubleshooting.

- Jim

* Background: the base code from the Chromium project is set to fail gracefully and discard the temporary data if it can’t write to that directory