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[CountryBumkin]

I had a warning on my laptop today the "C:" drive was full. It's a 60GB SSD, just running the OS with MS Office, and JRiver.
I thought that odd since all my media and recordings go to drive D:

After searching through the C: folders I found the "Users\...AppData\Roaming\JRiver\Media Center 22" was the culprit.

The "Log.txt file" in the Media Center 22 folder had grown to 36GB!

So I thought I'd pass this along to other Users - "check and clear your Log file occasionally (at Help>Logging)".

[DJLegba]

I think it's better to keep logging turned off unless you're troubleshooting.

[Awesome Donkey]

Also worth checking the conversion cache too (if you have that enabled) if you notice your hard drive to be filling up.

[tzr916]

I keep logs ON all the time on my server. Would not even consider leaving them off. Crashes happen. If you want to understand why a crash happens, logs are a necessity.


I might be wrong but, I thought the logs get reset when installing version updates?


New feature request- add an option to auto clear the logs every X number of days/weeks/months...

[Hendrik]

I might be wrong but, I thought the logs get reset when installing version updates?

More precisely, they rotate when MC is restarted, which would obviously happen when you install an update =)

[tzr916]

More precisely, they rotate when MC is restarted, which would obviously happen when you install an update =)

Explain "rotate"? You mean all the contents in the log file gets deleted and the file size goes back to zero?

[JimH]

Rotate means that the current log becomes the previous log, and the previous log is deleted.

[tzr916]

So the OP's 36GB log file  ? That would (im)possibly mean that his MC has not crashed or restarted or been updated in a super long time!

[glynor]

Yeah. Something isn't right in that report.

[CountryBumkin]

So the OP's 36GB log file  ? That would (im)possibly mean that his MC has not crashed or restarted or been updated in a super long time!

I was on .71 when this my "drive is full" message came up. So however long 71 has been out is the time it took the log to grow. Also, I had TV logging set to verbosity 1.

[Yaobing]

I was on .71 when this my "drive is full" message came up. So however long 71 has been out is the time it took the log to grow. Also, I had TV logging set to verbosity 1.

I once suggested leaving verbosity level to 1 for beta testers.  Perhaps I should revise that to leaving it to 0 unless trouble shouting something specific.