Forever.log 57Gb ...WTF???

[AwarE]

I came to the computer and tried to open a 2Mb pic, the operation failed with the message ....
"The operation you requested can not be performed due to low memory."
Then when I tried to open a program... I got another error message saying "Low disk space"

I checked my hard drive properties and sure enough there was very little free disk space on C Drive.
I run a very tidy computer and I knew that the Recycle Bin and Internet Cache were empty.

I was thinking of running 'chkdsk' to look for a drive error when I happened to find the FAF Forever.log file was taking up 57 Gigabytes of space. 57,000,000,000 bytes is an incredibly big text file. I obviously could not open this file to view its content and had to delete it so that my computer could function correctly.

I couldn't send a file that big on a train let alone the net. My game.log is turned off because it was also becoming very large as I reported in September. Nothing like the size of this file but was still too big to send at about 1.5Gb.

Just thought I would warn others that its worth checking these file sizes now and again.

roj

[speed2]

This is what playing with broken mods can do

[ede]

Maybe it's a better idea to begin a new log file after the first one exceeds a certain size, then if the second one gets too large, delete the first one and begin a third etc.

[AwarE]

Just an update to this ....
My forever.log has been of normal 5K size since i deleted the previous huge 57Gb file.

@speed2 ...I was trying to think how 'Mods' could be the cause as you suggest.
I do remember accidentally clicking on a Survival game that was Black-Ops and highly modded. The server downloaded updates for about 10 mins, as you can imagine I never made it into the game. I have not played any games with mods except 'anti-nuke price', although I see that I have 19 mods installed, 18 that I have never used.
So it seems that the massive forever.log was probably written during the interchange with the server while installing and updating these mods.

I think this is SOLVED. Thanks speed2.

[da_monstr]

Hey, this happenned to me once as well, the log just kept being written, you could even see in task manager how FAF just kept on writing to disk.
Back then I got no constructive answers.