# Action description wrong in log

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/action-description-wrong-in-log/3165
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [October 20, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/action-description-wrong-in-log/3165 "2009-10-20T04:25:45Z")
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### Author: ![simon\_page](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@simon\_page](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/simon_page)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/action-description-wrong-in-log/3165/1 "2009-10-20T04:25:45Z")

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I am using FB 6.3.0.1676 (to fix another issue)&nbsp;and I am experiencing a&nbsp;bug where the description of an action shown in the log is incorrect.

The problem is that at certain points in the build the descriptions that are logged start showing the descriptions of earlier actions but usually with the odd missing character. The action output and child actions appear correct so it looks like something is getting corrupted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the action descriptions have parameters in, but not all.&nbsp; This&nbsp;makes&nbsp;the log a real pain to use on a&nbsp;large project.&nbsp;

I had this problem a few weeks back but as I worked on the project it went away but is now back again.&nbsp; In case it helps,&nbsp; the type of actions completed just&nbsp;before the logging errors happen are mainly MSBuild, XML, text replace, file copies and execute program actions.&nbsp; After a number of&nbsp;erroneous log entries the problem then corrects itself.

Is this a known issue?

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/action-description-wrong-in-log/3165/2 "2009-10-20T11:32:25Z")

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Hi Simon   
  
 This is not a known problem and I cannot find a possible cause. Can you send your project to support so we can try to reproduce the problem here? Also, check the ActionLogTitle Property from the Action Inspector… is it possible these actions were copied and pasted? If the action log title is the same as the Action Description, then any changes to the Description are mirrored in the ActionLogTitle, however if the values are different then changes to the description will not affect the log title. We’ve had a few cases where users have been caught out by this when copy/pasting actions.

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### Author: ![simon\_page](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@simon\_page](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/simon_page)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 9:42am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/action-description-wrong-in-log/3165/3 "2009-10-21T09:42:44Z")

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Hi Vincent,

Thanks for the information - yes it was as simple as the action log title being set differently from the description.&nbsp;

I copied some actions to a test project for some work&nbsp;and then copied them back to the main project.&nbsp;Somewhere along the line the log title got out of sync and this&nbsp;gave me the odd looking results where it was fine before.&nbsp;

Apologies for not spotting this before posting!

Simon