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Colonel Anguss	Posted - 2011.04.22 17:19:00 - [1] There are several thousand log files from eve in my Documents folder, in Win 7. How do I disable logging, or at least change the location for them? thx
Calathea Sata State War Academy	Posted - 2011.04.22 17:21:00 - [2] Options > Audio and chat > Untick "log chat to file"
Colonel Anguss	Posted - 2011.04.22 17:23:00 - [3] how did I miss that.. thanks
Ocih Amarr The Program Controlled Chaos	Posted - 2011.04.22 17:25:00 - [4] Yep, I've had this climb up to as many as 32,000. It wasn't the space but the amount. They are even hard to delete with Vista. I just copied the name and deleted the folder. I do that once every month or so.
Kembla	Posted - 2011.04.22 17:43:00 - [5] A solution is to disallow access to the log folder. EVE Online will not be able to write logs in the first place. Open the Security Properties tab for My Documents\EVE\logs Click Advanced Uncheck ôInherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here.ö Click Remove in the resulting dialog box Click OK, Yes and then OK
Colonel Anguss	Posted - 2011.04.22 17:51:00 - [6] Edited by: Colonel Anguss on 22/04/2011 17:52:52 I'm noticing other log files that are still getting generated, apparently each time I warp, jump or dock. My main problem with this, is Eve is dumping these directly in the Documents folder -- not in a subfolder (same with the chatlogs, which I've since turned off) ------------------------------------------------------------ Gamelog Listener: some char Session started: some time ------------------------------------------------------------ [ date/time ] (notify) Warping to somewhere
Rasz Lin Caldari Uitraan Diversified Holdings Incorporated	Posted - 2011.04.22 18:04:00 - [7] thats nothing, if you use FAT32 EVE will happily ignore filesystem limitations* and keep saving till it cant, at that point you will lose all the logs * 21K files per folder at 4KB clusters
Gaeid Modiso The Graduates Morsus Mihi	Posted - 2011.04.22 20:07:00 - [8] Originally by: Kembla A solution is to disallow access to the log folder. EVE Online will not be able to write logs in the first place. Open the Security Properties tab for My Documents\EVE\logs Click Advanced Uncheck ôInherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here.ö Click Remove in the resulting dialog box Click OK, Yes and then OK Why would you do that? Just turn off chat logging in the client. =============================== Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. Dorothy Parker
Xercodo Amarr Daj'Juntar	Posted - 2011.04.22 20:38:00 - [9] http://code.google.com/p/evelogconcatenator/ let it sit and run fro a few hours the first time thru, then run it once a week or so... I've found there are often times when I wanna go back and find something someone said or a link or something. With this tool now all I need to know is what the channel was, and in which month they said it. -------------------------------------------------- The drake is a lie
Rens Cheque	Posted - 2011.04.22 21:19:00 - [10] Originally by: Gaeid Modiso Originally by: Kembla A solution is to disallow access to the log folder. EVE Online will not be able to write logs in the first place. Open the Security Properties tab for My Documents\EVE\logs Click Advanced Uncheck ôInherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here.ö Click Remove in the resulting dialog box Click OK, Yes and then OK Why would you do that? Just turn off chat logging in the client. Yeah I agree, that is a pretty rediculous solution.
Kembla	Posted - 2011.04.22 22:10:00 - [11] Originally by: Gaeid Modiso Why would you do that? Just turn off chat logging in the client. The client will still create game logs Originally by: Rens Cheque Yeah I agree, that is a pretty rediculous solution. What's ridiculous is using another program or schedule to remove logs which you could prevent being created.
Khanya Trace	Posted - 2011.04.22 23:23:00 - [12] Its really annoying that the logfiles are not in the eve folder but in a windows specific one. I would love to log my chat, but my windows partition is on my SSD and i really dont want EVE to constantly write on it.
Rixiu The Inuits	Posted - 2011.04.22 23:54:00 - [13] Edited by: Rixiu on 22/04/2011 23:54:17 Originally by: Khanya Trace Its really annoying that the logfiles are not in the eve folder but in a windows specific one. I would love to log my chat, but my windows partition is on my SSD and i really dont want EVE to constantly write on it. If I remember correctly the log files are put into the eve folder of my documents. Move the my documents folder to another hard drive and problem should be solved?. Right click my documents, select a new location, hit apply, allow windows to move your current files to the new location and receive bacon.
Khanya Trace	Posted - 2011.04.23 00:13:00 - [14] Originally by: Rixiu Edited by: Rixiu on 22/04/2011 23:54:17 Originally by: Khanya Trace Its really annoying that the logfiles are not in the eve folder but in a windows specific one. I would love to log my chat, but my windows partition is on my SSD and i really dont want EVE to constantly write on it. If I remember correctly the log files are put into the eve folder of my documents. Move the my documents folder to another hard drive and problem should be solved?. Right click my documents, select a new location, hit apply, allow windows to move your current files to the new location and receive bacon. Relocating the user folder in windows7 is not a trivial task and it can easily destroy the whole installation. And i dont mean it like when people say "dont use regedit, it can destroy your system if you are not careful", attempting to do this is REALLY on the edge because the user folder is very integrated in the whle win7 design and there is a lot of stuff linking to it and if you overlook just one, the whole system doesnt work anymore.
ivar R'dhak Minmatar	Posted - 2011.04.23 01:47:00 - [15] Have you tried it with the Link shell extension tool(hardlinks) from here: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Multiple_clients I suspect moving the whole Dock folder of the current user should be pretty impossible. Maybe it¦ll work by creating a new admin account, then log on to it and move the original user off the SSD so you can create the hardlink to the new location. If you don¦t understand a word I wrote, make yourself familiar with the Hardlink functionality the Link shell provides. It¦s pretty neat and should solve the SSD trashing even normal OS usage causes. ______________ Mal-¦Appears we got here just in a nick of time. What does that make us?¦ Zoe-`Big damn heroes, sir.` Mal-¦Aint we just.¦
Obsidian Hawk RONA Legion RONA Directorate	Posted - 2011.04.23 01:55:00 - [16] I burnt all my chat logs to dvd for later use of herm, forceful negotiation tools so when i need help I get it. Trust me there is a lot of drama and trash floating around in eve online. Havent met a ceo yet that didnt have some skeletons in their closet.
Val'Dore Word Bearers of Chaos Word of Chaos Undivided	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:08:00 - [17] You haven't had me, all my skeletons are nailed to the outside of my ships. ~No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.~ Tiericide
syphurous Gallente Center for Advanced Studies	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:14:00 - [18] Originally by: Khanya Trace blah blah blah In Win7 Right click on Documents in explorer. Properties, set its location. I fail how this is going to mess with my system when this is one of the nicest features of the OS. Only things with hardcoded locations will fail, and as it is Win7 seems to catch all of that and put it where it's meant to go. It even moved everything from where it was and placed it in the new location I set. Any application that doesn't use %USER% is bound to fall over anyway. You can set the entire libraries locations. If you still have a problem, look up Junctioning. Most people will read this thinking it's part of my post, when its actually my sig :P
FutureTroll5000	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:22:00 - [19] while we're on this topic, does anyone know of anything else that can be disabled that prevents a bunch of EVE crap to accumulate anywhere on your computer?
Aamrr	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:23:00 - [20] If any of you guys are on Linux, just remember that you can replace the folder with a symlink to where you really want the logs stored. Quick, easy, and anybody who uses the OS should be familiar with how to do it. Even works across partitions.
John Wesley Hardin	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:42:00 - [21] Originally by: Ocih Yep, I've had this climb up to as many as 32,000. It wasn't the space but the amount. They are even hard to delete with Vista. I just copied the name and deleted the folder. I do that once every month or so. Umm... crtl + A, ctrl + D. How hard is that? no need to delete any folders
John Wesley Hardin	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:45:00 - [22] Originally by: Obsidian Hawk I burnt all my chat logs to dvd for later use of herm, forceful negotiation tools so when i need help I get it. Trust me there is a lot of drama and trash floating around in eve online. Havent met a ceo yet that didnt have some skeletons in their closet. Obs you're a weird dude! but we love you
Tippia Sunshine and Lollipops	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:49:00 - [23] Originally by: Aamrr If any of you guys are on Linux, just remember that you can replace the folder with a symlink to where you really want the logs stored. Quick, easy, and anybody who uses the OS should be familiar with how to do it. Even works across partitions. All OSes can do that these days. ùùù ôIf you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡à you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.ö ù Karath Piki
John Wesley Hardin	Posted - 2011.04.23 02:50:00 - [24] Originally by: FutureTroll5000 while we're on this topic, does anyone know of anything else that can be disabled that prevents a bunch of EVE crap to accumulate anywhere on your computer? It aint crap & all the logs are in the same place -default Documents. Just clean house every now & then & if you dont want chat logs disable it in the client as others have said. I recommend keeping chat logs tho & if you've had an uneventful month delete them, takes 2 seconds to do & they dont take much HDD space anyway so I don't see why everyone freaks out about them. If you've had drama - zip them & label properly, you never know when they might come in handy!
Tuggboat Minmatar	Posted - 2011.04.23 03:28:00 - [25] Originally by: John Wesley Hardin Originally by: Ocih Yep, I've had this climb up to as many as 32,000. It wasn't the space but the amount. They are even hard to delete with Vista. I just copied the name and deleted the folder. I do that once every month or so. Umm... crtl + A, ctrl + D. How hard is that? no need to delete any folders must have waited 15 minutes and the files still weren't cataloged and visible. Went in with Alltap Salamander. 4 gigs, maybe hundreds of thousands of files. can't tell yet for sure. Salamander seems to be able to handle it but Windows may not be up to it. Think I'll move em instead of deletes. Lots of old good convos :) Lot of trash too.
im aman244	Posted - 2011.04.23 08:16:00 - [26] i have logs from 2008...3 years old o_0
Ocih Amarr The Program Controlled Chaos	Posted - 2011.04.23 08:20:00 - [27] Originally by: John Wesley Hardin Originally by: Ocih Yep, I've had this climb up to as many as 32,000. It wasn't the space but the amount. They are even hard to delete with Vista. I just copied the name and deleted the folder. I do that once every month or so. Umm... crtl + A, ctrl + D. How hard is that? no need to delete any folders Ctrl and A, Delete on 20,000 files crashes explorer.
SupaKudoRio	Posted - 2011.04.23 09:34:00 - [28] 237mb, 53k files, of logs. I thought there would be more... Ye'llo?

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