> Should I delete these?  

  They might be taking up as much as a megabyte, in an errar when a megabyte 
of flash RAM costs about 2 cents and hard drive space is somewhat cheaper.  
I really wouldn't worry about them, unless you think they might contain 
incriminating evidence.

> Is there any danger if I delete them?  

  Probably not.  Most software that writes logs will either (a) use the 
system logs, or (b) create a log file if there is something to write and the 
file is missing.

> How can they be deleted en masse?

  The "Find" results window is an Explorer window, so you can use Ctrl-A to 
select all of the files listed, and then delete them.
  That's likely to fail if you've included the OS/system folders in the 
search, because your results probably include the three Windows NT/2K/XP 
system log files, which are constantly in use by the OS.  These files are 
not text files (as most other *.log files probably are), and are managed 
through a utiltiy called "Event Manager".  The closes it will let you get to 
deleting them is to discard everything to date and start anew....

David Gillett



On 23 Feb 2007 at 14:29, Jim wrote:

> I've read:
> 
> "But over the years, log files have moved from front-line troubleshooting to
> a rarely used and obscure tool tucked away on your PC. Log files can be like
> weeds, growing in the quiet corners of your hard drive." (Fred Langa)
> 
> Using  *.log   at "Find" I found 314 files.  Most are under 50 KB, many in
> the hundreds, with a few up to 12,000 KB.
> 
> Should I delete these?  Is there any danger if  I delete them?  How can they
> be deleted en masse?
> 
>              - Jim Harris,  Philadelphia 

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