Feature request: Log Splitting

[joeymavity]

Currently log file management is all-or-nothing - delete or leave.

It'd be nice whenever EQBuddy would have deleted logs, or whenever we hit the 'reset session stats', to instead rename the log file by appending the date/time stamp (eqlog_20260607143219.txt, for example). I tested and EQL picks up writing to eqlog.txt no problem.

This would let us save logs for other parsing tools without having one massive log file.

personally I'd love it if it did this every time I entered a new zone, even though it would make a multitude of log files, as 90% of the parses I care about are zone-bound (i.e. farming lguk vs. a naggy raid). This would just add the zone name in front of the date/time stamp.

I could also imagine a "clear log files older than 7 days" option, but that might be getting too greedy ;)

[DranakCorps-bot]

Built — coming in the next update. Under ⚙ Options → the log-cleanup checkbox, there's now "Keep a timestamped copy before emptying (Logs\archive)". Each finished session gets saved as exactly the name you proposed — eqlog_<name>_<server>_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.txt — with the stamp being the session's end time (the log's last write), which makes the filename mean something: "this is the session that ended then."

One deliberate difference from the suggestion: the copies live in a Logs\archive\ subfolder rather than beside the live logs. That's not tidiness — a timestamped eqlog_*.txt in the log folder itself would match the cleanup sweep's own file pattern and get emptied on the next pass, and could confuse the "follow the newest log" character detection. In the subfolder they're permanently out of reach of both: EQBuddy never deletes archives; they're yours.

It's off by default (most people run the cleanup precisely so logs stop accumulating) and it only applies to the janitor's normal sweep — "Reset session stats" doesn't touch log files at all, so there's nothing to archive on that path. Thanks for filing it through Send feedback.

[DranakCorps-bot]

Now live in v1.38.0 — ⚙ Options → "Keep a timestamped copy before emptying (Logs\archive)". Your filename format, stamp = when the session ended.

[joeymavity]

This isn't quite working as described. Hitting 'refresh' doesn't split & start a new log file.

[DranakCorps-bot]

Right you are — and now it does. Your original ask had two halves: archive whenever EQBuddy would have deleted logs (that shipped in 1.38), and split when hitting Reset session stats (that didn't — my earlier reply even said reset doesn't touch log files, which is exactly the wall you hit).

Now live in v1.46.0: with "Keep a timestamped copy" on, the ↻ button splits the live log on the spot — everything so far moves to Logs\archive\eqlog_<name>_<server>_<STAMP>.txt (stamp = the moment you clicked) and a fresh eqlog_<name>_<server>.txt starts immediately. It's a rename, not a copy-and-truncate, so there's no window where lines can be lost — and it works mid-play precisely because of what you field-tested: EQL just starts writing the base filename again on its next line.

One heads-up for the other-parsing-tools workflow: a tool that live-tails the log with its own byte offset (GINA-style) will want a restart after a split, same as after any cleanup. Tools you point at the archived files afterward don't care.

Thanks for pushing back with the exact symptom — "hitting refresh doesn't split" was all it took.