System error logs

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:17:13PM -0400, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> I, personally, have never deleted any Windows system logs.  I've
> never found a reason to do so.  (NB:  It's possible "way back when",
> when Windows wrote text log files, I might have purged non-error log
> files, such as all those installations.)
> 
> Note that Windows automatically purges/archives the oldest log
> entries, depending on your settings.  My system shows "overwrite
> events as needed (oldest events first)" on all of the Windows logs.
> The "system" log goes back 5-1/2 months.
> 
> My entire "logs" directory is only 214MB.  (Not sure when nearly a
> quarter of a GB became "only", but so be it.  SanDisk just announced
> a 1TB SD card.)
> 
> If you think purging the logs will help find some error currently
> happening in a program, you're wrong.  If you say "but there's just
> so much to wade through if I don't purge", you're missing the fact
> that you'll have just as much to wade through after the purge, since
> you only need to look around the time that the program was run, and
> all that "other stuff" will still be in the logs.  You can, of
> course, filter things in the view.
> 
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> Kenneth Brody
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