# Clearing log files
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [March 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357 "2009-03-06T05:13:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/1 "2009-03-06T05:13:30Z")
How can I progromatically clear the log files (.log2) ?
I want to keep the logs until the project completes, then I want to get rid of them, if it fails then export the log to HTML then clear it.
Thanks
Gary H
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/2 "2009-03-10T03:00:49Z")
Hi Gary
if you use the /TL option on atcmd then it will log to a temporary log file, which will be deleted once the process is done.
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/3 "2009-03-10T02:30:06Z")
Thanks Vincent - i will give this a go today.
Gary H
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/4 "2009-03-10T04:19:44Z")
Thanks - it worked a treat, I really should sit down and read the manual.
Gary H
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/5 "2009-03-12T01:42:22Z")
Vincent,
still have an issue with this...
If I use the temp log files, the number of files builds up. I have one script running every 10 minutes to ftp data files to a WEB server, the log files are named FB316A - FB316B etc... It managed to fill the drive over night.
Is there a way to identify which log files belong to which process and the kill them? IE if I could get the process number I could get that process to kill its log files on a successfull completion, or export to html then kill the log files.
Thanks
Gary H
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/6 "2009-03-13T12:12:55Z")
Hi Gary
Automise should be deleting it’s temporary log files, if it’s not then that’s a bug, I’ll look into it.
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/clearing-log-files/4357/7 "2009-03-13T01:59:36Z")
Thanks Vincent, in the mean time I have disabled logging (/s) but it does mean that i cant track failures.
Gary H