diff --git a/docs/ISSUE_GUIDELINES.md b/docs/ISSUE_GUIDELINES.md
index be011608..c031fe85 100644
--- a/docs/ISSUE_GUIDELINES.md
+++ b/docs/ISSUE_GUIDELINES.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ basically, directories in /tmp/hypr are your sessions.
 
 ## Obtaining the Hyprland Crash Report (v0.22.0beta and up)
 
-If you have `$XDG_CACHE_HOME` set, the crash report directory is `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/hyprland`. If not, it's `~/.hyprland`
+If you have `$XDG_CACHE_HOME` set, the crash report directory is `$XDG_CACHE_HOME/hyprland`. If not, it's `$HOME/.cache/hyprland`.
 
 Go to the crash report directory and you should find a file named `hyprlandCrashReport[XXXX].txt` where `[XXXX]` is the PID of the process that crashed.
 
diff --git a/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp b/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp
index 70a6f7b6..cf648191 100644
--- a/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp
+++ b/src/debug/CrashReporter.cpp
@@ -146,21 +146,18 @@ void CrashReporter::createAndSaveCrash(int sig) {
         return;
 
     std::ofstream ofs;
-    std::string   path;
-    if (!CACHE_HOME || std::string(CACHE_HOME).empty()) {
-        if (!std::filesystem::exists(std::string(HOME) + "/.hyprland"))
-            std::filesystem::create_directory(std::string(HOME) + "/.hyprland");
+    std::string   reportDir;
 
-        path = std::string(HOME) + "/.hyprland/hyprlandCrashReport" + std::to_string(PID) + ".txt";
-        ofs.open(path, std::ios::trunc);
+    if (!CACHE_HOME || std::string(CACHE_HOME).empty())
+        reportDir = std::string(HOME) + "/.cache/hyprland";
+    else
+        reportDir = std::string(CACHE_HOME) + "/hyprland";
 
-    } else {
-        if (!std::filesystem::exists(std::string(CACHE_HOME) + "/hyprland"))
-            std::filesystem::create_directory(std::string(CACHE_HOME) + "/hyprland");
+    if (!std::filesystem::exists(reportDir))
+        std::filesystem::create_directory(reportDir);
+    const auto path = reportDir + "/hyprlandCrashReport" + std::to_string(PID) + ".txt";
 
-        path = std::string(CACHE_HOME) + "/hyprland/hyprlandCrashReport" + std::to_string(PID) + ".txt";
-        ofs.open(path, std::ios::trunc);
-    }
+    ofs.open(path, std::ios::trunc);
 
     ofs << finalCrashReport;