how do you quickly clear the Editor Log file?

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how do you quickly clear the Editor Log file?

thanks

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I was able to do this by opening it, deleting the contents, and then saving it over the original. But, I’m not sure if that’s the correct way to do it.

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Deleting the contents does not stop the log file from growing, as Unity zeros out the memory and appends internally. So if you use the above approach to clear a 4 Mb .log file, it’d go to zero bytes, and then right back to 4 Mb as soon as Unity appended the next log. If you have access to your Unity C# code, you can call the UnityEngine.Debug.ClearDeveloperConsole(); method.

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This does not work.

This works.

I think there should be a command or some other way to do this from scripts, no?

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You could delete the editor.log file, but you should exit unity first, since it opens in exclusive way. The file is in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Unity\Editor\Editor.log

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