Turning off plug-in logging

[brian rich]

We've built a plug-in using Scriptmaster Advanced and note that it writes a log file to a folder called 360Plugin Logs into the documents folder in the users My Documents folder.

It is possible to turn this feature off? If not, can the output be directed elsewhere?

Does deleteing the folder cause any problems for the plug-in?

Thanks

Brian

[Agnes Riley]

I don't think you can turn off plug-in logging. How large are your files? Most applications log events in the background, but unless there's a problem and the logs accumulate rapidly, this is not an issue. You can certainly delete some old logs if they are in your way.

Logging is important so if there's a problem you can go and check them for troubleshooting.

If you really don't want logging, you can certainly contact 360 Works and request them to build a special version for you without logging.

[brian rich]

Hi Agnes

The reason we don't want the log files to appear is that they turn up in the user's documents folder, so we get questions about what they are and why they are there. If we could put them elsewhere, such as in the user's appdata folder, at least they would be out of sight.

I was hoping that there would be a software switch somewhere that we could use, but can see nothing in the documentation.

Regards

Brian

[Jesse Barnum]

Hi Brian - we don't have an option to write those logs to another location. If you delete that folder, we'll just create it automatically the next time the plugin runs. The reason we put it there instead of a hidden directory is because we frequently need to ask users to send us a copy of their log file for tech support, and it's just much harder to explain when they need to navigate into hidden directories.

I can't think of a good way to change a setting to write somewhere else, because the log file starts writing very early in the plugin initialization process, long before you could start communicating with it to tell it where you wanted to write the log file.