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How do you clear the logs in the System Profiler ?
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Jun 3, 2003, 04:39 PM
 
I've got crash logs in the system profiler that are over a year old (and a few revisions of OS X back). These crash logs are no longer relavent.

How can anyone clear these logs out (i.e. delete them) so that you can start a fresh log session?

Anyone know?

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Jun 3, 2003, 05:04 PM
 
A couple of ways. One is via the Terminal and using the command line to do this. The other uses shareware utilities such as Cocktail. MacJanitor, or Xsupport are a few.

You can also search on macOSXhints.com under system logs.

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Jun 3, 2003, 05:55 PM
 
Originally posted by PubGuy:
I've got crash logs in the system profiler that are over a year old (and a few revisions of OS X back). These crash logs are no longer relavent.

How can anyone clear these logs out (i.e. delete them) so that you can start a fresh log session?
Just trash them.

~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter
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Jun 4, 2003, 10:05 AM
 
Developer: Thanks! Perfect!

Wonder why Apple doesn't provide a preference in System Profiler to purge the logs after 'x' amount of days?

Thanks to all for the responses!

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