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Tomahawk, the multi-source music player
http://tomahawk-player.org
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Not releasing disk space when log file is deleted #623

Closed TraylorHead closed 7 years ago

TraylorHead commented 7 years ago

Hi,

I have version 0.8.4 loaded and running on Win10 64bit system and have notice my free space on the drive shrinking. I also do programming, graphic design and more so I did some checking and I could not locate what has been added to take up the room.

I purchased a larger SSD driver as I though the last few application just updates and took more room. Then I found it that since them I have lost of 10 G of space.

Looking around today and found the log file for Tomahawk was over 6Gb in size. When I shut down and restarted Tomahawk the log file reset to 0 and started growing, BUT I did not recover my used disk space.

I tried this a few more times with same results. I have since then disable reporting of crashes but log file continue to build and grow.

I will look for a way to turn off debug log and recover my lost disk space.

Thanks Jimmy

muesli commented 7 years ago

Your operating system & SSD decide when to release the space.