Log Locations for several apps, in one place. Started: 2024-07

Locations of Known Log Files.2024.md

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Log Locations for several apps, in one place. Started: 2024-07

See LogPaths.yml

• About
  • Common Environment variables
• PowerShell
  • Search for useful Env vars
  • Adding paths in Powershell

Common Environment variables

Env Var	Path
USERPROFILE	"C:\Users\username"
LOCALAPPDATA	"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local"
APPDATA	"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming"
TEMP	"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp"
CommonProgramFiles	"C:\Program Files\Common Files"
CommonProgramFiles(x86)	"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files"
CommonProgramW6432	"C:\Program Files\Common Files"
ProgramData	"C:\ProgramData"
ProgramFiles	"C:\Program Files"
ProgramFiles(x86)	"C:\Program Files (x86)"
ProgramW6432	"C:\Program Files"

PowerShell

Search for useful Env vars

# To See everything:
Get-ChildItem Env: 

# To only show ones that might be filepaths
gci env: | ?{ $_.Value -match '\w:\\' } 

# To only show ones that are existing filepaths # ie: this would filter %PATH%
gci env: | ?{ Test-Path $_.Value } 

Adding paths in Powershell

To represent the path: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0 for windows explorer, you can use the env var:

%LocalAppData\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0

or using powershell:

Join-Path $Env:LocalAppData 'Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0'

LogPaths.yml

updated: '2024-07-21'
group: 'root'
children:
  - group: 'Nvidia'
    children:
      - name: 'Nvidia Gfn Runtime SDK'
        desc: some nvidia logging for 'GfnSdk', from c++
        path: '%LocalAppData%\NVIDIA Corporation\GfnRuntimeSdk\GfnRuntimeSdk.log'
        tags: [ 'nvidia', 'graphics', 'game', 'sdk' ]
      - name: 'Nvidia Share: Debug.log'
        tags: [ 'nvidia', 'shared', 'debug' ]
        path: '%LocalAppData%\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Share\debug.log'
  - group: 'steam'
    desc: 'steam games, and other logs'
    tags: [ 'steam', 'games', 'graphics' ]
    children:
      - name: 'Steam: Primary client logs'
        tags: [ 'steam', 'root path', 'logs' ]
        desc: 'has tons of logs named ".txt" like: "configstore_log.txt", "systemmanager" "bootstrap", "steamui" '
        path: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\logs\**\*.txt'
      - name: 'Steam: Game Overlay UI'
        desc: 'Steam overlay UI'
        tags: ['steam', 'game', 'graphics', 'overlay']
        path: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayUI.exe.log'
      - name: 'Steam: Game Overlay Render'
        desc: 'Game Overlay Render but not the UI-specific portion?'
        tags: ['steam', 'game', 'graphics', 'overlay']
        path: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayRenderer.log'
      - name: 'Steam: AppInfo'
        tags: ['steam']
        path: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\logs\appinfo_log.txt'
  - name: 'Discord'
    desc: 'Discord logs, temporary files'
    tags: ['discord', 'chat', 'voice', 'overlay', 'temporary logs']
    path: '%AppData%\discord\Local Storage\leveldb\**\*.log'
  - name: 'Spotify'
    tags: [ 'music', 'temporary logs' ]
    desc: 'spotify native client'
    path: '%LocalAppData%\Packages\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0\LocalCache\Spotify\Default\Local Storage\leveldb\**\*.log'
  - group: 'Powershell'
    desc: 'powershell logs and history'
    tags: ['powershell', 'pwsh', 'history' ]
    children:
      - name: 'PSReadLine Console history'
        desc: 'Multi-line commands are stored as backtick escaped items.'
        tags: ['powershell', 'pwsh', 'history' ]
        path: '%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt'
  - group: 'Javascript / Node.js'
    desc: 'Javascript or Node.js related'
    tags: ['node', 'javascript' ]
    children:
      - name: 'Node.js: npm'
        desc: 'npm logs'
        tags: ['npm', 'node', 'javascript' ]
        path: '%LocalAppData%\npm-cache\_logs\<timestamp>-debug-0.log'
  - group: 'Microsoft'
    children:
      - name: 'Microsoft.Windows.Search package'
        desc: 'Microsoft.Windows.Search: Several search related logs are in a shared parent directory'
        path: '%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\ShellFeeds\IDX_CONTENT_TASKBARHEADLINES.json'