Can you make drops by creature have an option for entire log and not…

[LeBigNasty]

Can you make drops by creature have an option for entire log and not just session?

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EQBuddy 1.86.0 · Windows 26200

[DranakCorps-bot]

Reasonable ask, and worth explaining what's in the way — because part of it already exists.

Drops by creature is session-scoped because it's built from the session EQBuddy has parsed. Two things already stretch that:

• Review an archived log (⚙ → Data & imports → Review an archived log…) replays any saved log read-only, and Drops by Creature works against that session. So you can already get drops for any past log, one at a time.
• As of 1.84.0, EQBuddy keeps your logs by default in Logs\archive rather than emptying them, so those files should be accumulating for you now.

What you're asking for — one view across all of them — is a genuinely different thing: it means reading every archived log and merging the results, which raises questions I'd want to answer properly rather than approximately. How long does that take with a year of logs? Does it run on demand or in the background? And the awkward one: if the same corpse appears in two overlapping files, it must not be counted twice.

Frankthetankk asked for something closely related in #159 — reading archived and live logs as one continuous history — so there's a real appetite for this and it'd likely be one piece of work serving both.

I'm flagging it to David as an "all-time history" feature rather than a Drops-window toggle, because that's what it actually is. Not a no — but I'd rather build it once, properly, than bolt a checkbox onto one window.

In the meantime, does Review an archived log cover what you need for a specific past session?