My MT4 folder has above 60GB capacity - question

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My MT4 folder has more than 60GB capacity. I found there many logs in subfolders

C:\Program Files\MT4\logs

and

C:\Program Files\MT4\testes\logs


Many files was grater than 3,4,5,6 GB !


How to disable logs on Meta Trader 4 ?

 
puncher:

How to disable logs on Meta Trader 4 ?

I don't think you can . . . but you can control the verbosity of your EA. If you don't need your EA to log any more for debugging purposes then stop it doing so . . .
 
puncher:

My MT4 folder has more than 60GB capacity. I found there many logs in subfolders

C:\Program Files\MT4\logs

and

C:\Program Files\MT4\testes\logs


Many files was grater than 3,4,5,6 GB !


How to disable logs on Meta Trader 4 ?

  1. Do NOT install in \program files* on Vista/Win 7
  2. MT keeps the last few days worth. You can delete when you like.
  3. Comment out your print statements you are not actually using for debugging.
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Maybe using MQL order Print("...") in your EA => bigger size file logs! My own experience!!!

 
Are they Error Logs .... I have seen many error logs become HUGE like that.
 
RaptorUK:
I don't think you can . . . but you can control the verbosity of your EA. If you don't need your EA to log any more for debugging purposes then stop it doing so . . .

it is very fucking situation, but thank you for the answer
 

Not sure what you mean by that last comment . . but I'll take the thank you :-) and explain what I do . . .

I have an extern and some bools . . .

extern int Debug_Level=0 ;             // Set to a value from 0 to 5, 0 = no debugging (default), 5 = max debugging messages

bool D1, D2, D3, D4, D5;   // debug values used like this  if(D2) do . . .

in init() I do this . . . 

   D1=false; D2=false;D3=false;D4=false;D5=false;  // set debug level 
   switch(Debug_Level) {
      case 5: D5=true;
      case 4: D4=true;
      case 3: D3=true;
      case 2: D2=true;
      case 1: D1=true;
      }

then I use this to control which Print statements get executed . . . 

if (D4) Print("Slippage = ", Slippage);

If I set Debug_Level=0 then I get no debugging messages and very small log files . . . I still have the option to Print important messages that I want regardless . . . I just don't use the if (Dx)

 
RaptorUK:

Not sure what you mean by that last comment . . but I'll take the thank you :-) and explain what I do . . .

I have an extern and some bools . . .

in init() I do this . . .

then I use this to control which Print statements get executed . . .

If I set Debug_Level=0 then I get no debugging messages and very small log files . . . I still have the option to Print important messages that I want regardless . . . I just don't use the if (Dx)


RaptorUK correct me if I wrong. I do not know whether I understood it well:

If I use in program more Print() function then log will be much greater than I will not use this function on my EA. Have I right?

 
puncher:


RaptorUK correct me if I wrong. I do not know whether I understood it well:

If I use in program more Print() function then log will be much greater than I will not use this function on my EA. Have I right?


correct
 
puncher:


RaptorUK correct me if I wrong. I do not know whether I understood it well:

If I use in program more Print() function then log will be much greater than I will not use this function on my EA. Have I right?


Correct, but when you are developing and debugging an EA you need the Print functions to help you find errors, typos and bugs . . . when the EA is working you can turn them off . . .

extern int Debug_Level=0 ;  
 
RaptorUK:

Correct, but when you are developing and debugging an EA you need the Print functions to help you find errors, typos and bugs . . . when the EA is working you can turn them off . . .


exactly OK thanks
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