[Feature Request] automatically delete old erpt reports

[DraconicNEO]

Feature Request

What feature are you suggesting?

Overview:

Have Atmosphere delete erpt reports automatically after a certain amount has been reached in the folder to prevent crashing from too many erpt reports.

Smaller Details:

• checking number of erpt reports
• Deleting old ones to prevent them from exceeding some amount i.e. 1024

Nature of Request:

[ Remove all that do not apply to your request. ]

• Addition
• Change

What component do you feel this would best fit within?

• Stratosphère
  

Why would this feature be useful?

This feature addresses an issue where the erpt reports accumulate over time eventually exceeding the Switch's file limit and causing the error applet to crash. If this feature were implemented this crash could be avoided since old Erpt reports would be deleted and would never accumulate to the 16383 file limit.

[SciresM]

Unless a setting is switched away from default, erpt will now clean the report folder on boot if there are >= 1000 reports (or if reading the number of reports fails).

[ImanCol]

I think I've already requested this before in Hekate, but I was ignored.

When the partitions in the MicroSD are being resized from Hekate, these reports cause the process to slow down more.

https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/issues/711#issue-1140136396

[Masamune3210]

This has nothing to do with that, the slowness of backing up the erpt logs is caused by them being lots of small files which is inherently slow to deal with no matter the system or storage device due to inefficiencies. The solution to that is still the same, if you are making a backup delete the logs unless you need them for something

[ImanCol]

Or something better, disable creating logs, if the user is not reporting bugs. In addition, it will increase the life cycle of the MicroSD.

[Masamune3210]

Logs are on for a reason, issues don't always manifest before they become an imperative

[SciresM]

Or something better, disable creating logs, if the user is not reporting bugs. In addition, it will increase the life cycle of the MicroSD.

I am not going to disable log creation.

[ImanCol]

Rarely did I get a blue screen from atmosphere, but they still generate intangible amounts of log files. All I have to do is write-protect the folder.

[Masamune3210]

This will prevent the folder from growing past a certain point, and just because you arent getting full crashes doesn't mean errors arent happening. erpt isn't going to just spit out a log saying All is OK, if its making logs its for a reason

[ImanCol]

Well, hopefully that option to delete records when it exceeds a certain amount is added.

[Masamune3210]

The commit is already done, unless something changes its happening