[Summary-Talk] Re: Summary looking for log file in wrong directory

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you followed the Aliases in Summary's Logs folder *recently* to
make sure they point where you think that they point and checked that
there aren't any log files from the wrong domains in those locations?

Summary asks the OS for a list of the files contained in each
sub-directory of Summary's Logs folder, following aliases as needed, and
those are the files it opens. If the files are not actually in those
directories then there must be something seriously strange going on.

I have never heard of this particular thing going wrong before. However,
OS X has done some other unusual things when left running, with out a
reboot, for a long time. If you reboot the machine and try again does
anything change?

This might also be a good time to run Disk Utilities first aid function
(sadly, you have to boot from a different volume or the OS X install CD
to do this) to verify that the disk directory is intact, just to be
sure. Disk corruption could cause problems like this one.

If you are running Summary in incremental mode, there is a remote chance
that loading a recent backup, on the Tools configuration page, might help.

Jason


Gregg Luhring wrote:
> I am not using log downloading. Summary is running on the web server
> and there are aliases of the log folders in the summary log folder.
> 
> There are no logs in the wrong place. Summary says there are but there
> aren't. That's the problem
> 
>>Opening log file: wilsonshaffer/Isadoora.log.txt
>>Opening log file: whitefishbayfarm/Isadoora.log.txt
> 
> In the previous example, 3wdesign_2005-03-27-#570F46.txt, is in the
> 3wdesign directory but Isadoora.log.txt does not exist in the
> wilsonshaffer directory nor the whitefishbayfarm directory
> 
> wilsonshaffer and wilsonshaffer are aliases of the actual log
> directories within each respective domain.

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