Log file location on a mac

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Log file location on a mac #410

Open kaelyeah opened 3 years ago

kaelyeah commented 3 years ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I had set logging level to 2 thinking I might be able to troubleshoot some issues I was having. Suddenly my boot drive was filling up at an astounding pace. I'm on a mac. I saw in Activity Monitor that Prismatik had written 66GB to my disk somewhere. Seems crazy that log data could be that large. Is that possible? I can't find the log file anywhere. I set logging level back to 0 and the disk bloating seems to have stopped.

zomfg commented 3 years ago

~/.Prismatik or use the button beside the log level

kaelyeah commented 3 years ago

Ok yeah, that file does not exist here. And the button next to the log level is not functional. Strange! Could the log have deleted itself after I disabled logging? Guess it's a ghost in the machine at this point. I just hope it's not a 66GB ghost hidden somewhere on my SSD. Oh well, thanks.

zomfg commented 3 years ago

how are you looking for the folder? if you use Finder do "Go > Go to Folder..." and paste the path in or in prismatik if you re-enable logs, restart prismatik, the button will be enabled (i guess it should always be enabled or check if logs exist..) or open Terminal, type open .Prismatik

kaelyeah commented 3 years ago

Aha! Yeah the terminal method did the trick (yes I'm a noob). Seems the folder was hidden otherwise. Thank you sooo much! Turns out it was stashing 352 GB in there! Wowsers!!!