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oooh the pretty colours. I like pictures in buttons

Log Manager has been updated to version 1.1.008! Check the first post to find out more!

That seems a little wrong, Lol.

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That seems a little wrong, Lol.

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Ah, the beauty of copy-pasting. Already fixed on my side, will be implemented in the next version.

i LOVE the merge script

so damn useful lol

Decrypting makes your CPU at very high load(core2 duo e6600@2.8ghz). the last time i tried to decrypt some big logs and my pc stopped working. i had to restart it manually. arround 20-25 Log Viewer.exe was runned

also is it possible to make it auto merge files with numbers like (2) (3)?
for example:
December 2007 (2) to December 2007
without having to un-tick many

Normally it shouldn't open so many decryption processes at once, but it should wait until the current one is finished. However, the way of determining this is really tricky because the script can't really determine if the decryption is done or not. I can also understand that decrypting can heat up your CPU, but that's because I don't actually own the control about the decrypting process itself. The script depends on Plus!' Log Viewer.exe, whereas other scripts use only JScript or homemade DLLs which the developer has made himself.

As for auto-merging, I understand that there's a huge request for scheduled tasks or automatic actions, but for the moment this is not an easy task. Plus!' scripting system has no specific function to let something happen at an exact moment (e.g. every day at 5 pm) and thus I'd have to use timers instead. But those can have serious complications, e.g. the script may not run at the time the task is planned. And also, I can't think of an easy way to get a GUI for all those possibilities so the user can define what should happen.

I recommend you to do the decryption in smaller parts instead of decrypting them all at once. Log Manager is out of development at the moment, as I'm busy with Countdown Live 2 at the moment. In fact, Log Manager doesn't need to be made with the Plus! Live scripting system, and maybe it would be better if it was a stand-alone application so it could use everything normal programs can. Unfortunately, I don't own the skills to write something in C++ or something. But if I would learn C++ one day, I may want to write a Log Manager which can really manage logs.

Hiya,
I'm just trying this now and I'm trying to get it to merge some files together for me and it just repeatedly is hanging each time.

It instantly jumps up to 'Overall status: x% completed' (usually quite high like 75% or 65% or something) and then just sits there and doesn't change at all and just hangs

The status remains as 'waiting' for both files as well.
Another thing I've just noticed is that the original files I have selected to be merged are no longer there (luckily I was using a backup copy to test with or I'd have lost my files now!!!)

also wondering - are you having to manually parse the log files yourself to merge them or can log viewer.exe do it for you?

The only options I can see for Log viewer.exe are:

viewlog
encrypt
decrypt
changepwd

The merging process is handled by Log Manager itself. Basically, it reads the files, splits them up in their sessions and stores those sessions in an array. Then, the array is sorted by date and then Log Manager writes the new file.

I'm sorry that it's not working properly for you, but I'm afraid there's few I can do about this. The script fully depends on Log Viewer.exe and there's really nothing I can do to provide a better method. In fact, the script can't tell whether decryption is actually done, since I can't communicate with the process itself. Unfortunately, people want me to do big things, like scheduled tasks and such, but I'm afraid that would cause it all to hang even more, cause more trouble and, well, I have no idea how I should program that with a Plus! script. Yes, sure, why not program a DLL? Well, VS2005 fails here, so I can't even try to start on learning C++ or another serious language.

Anyway, back onto your problem. Maybe you could provide some more information?

• How many files are you trying to merge?
  
• Are those files encrypted?
  
• How large (file size) are the files?
  
• What are your computer specifications?

I decided to try trouble shoot so just did it with two small files to test - same result.
They're not encrypted at all, just plain.
they're under 100kb each.

computer is 2gb RAM, c2d processor - pretty high spec basically - easily enough for something this basic.

How do you get log manager to merge files?
I downloaded the scripting manually and couldn't see anything about it there, where did you get the info for about it?

thanks