windowserver_last.log = 13GB

[Unorthodox]

Will anything bad happen if I delete a file called "windowsearver_last.log" from my computer.

And why the puck dose it need to be 13GBs?

 

[mad jew]

It should be fine to delete. As a test, chuck it in the Trash, restart and play around with the machine for a while. If nothing bad happens, then you know it's pretty safe to delete. It's a bug in OPSX that has let it grow this large. 🙂

 

[jsw]

Will anything bad happen if I delete a file called "windowsearver_last.log" from my computer.

And why the puck dose it need to be 13GBs?

I don't see a problem with deleting it... and 13GB??? Something was seriously screwed up on your system.

 

[mad jew]

FWIW, it's an OSX bug but it's nothing to worry about. It probably won't happen again. It's not a sign of impending doom. 🙂

 

[Unorthodox]

Then into the trash it goes.

FWIW, it's an OSX bug but it's nothing to worry about. It probably won't happen again. It's not a sign of impending doom. 🙂

Oh good.
What about this?

Kidding

 

[mad jew]

Do a quick restart too, since it's essentially a system file. 🙂

 

[mkrishnan]

Kidding

Love it! It'd make a good avatar! 🙂

FWIW, it's a _last.log... meaning that it's supposed to be swapped out. Meaning that it's just a back file, basically, in case you should want to look at it. By the time it becomes a _last.log (as opposed to /private/var/log/windowserver.log), it is already not in use by the OS.

 

[Unorthodox]

Well it took a really long time to login but otherwise it seems ay-okay.

 

[thewhitehart]

I had the same thing happen to me with the same file - I used Omni Disk Sweeper to find it. It was 37 GB big!