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Inspiring
November 24, 2019
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P: User-selectable location of LrClassicLogs file

  • November 24, 2019
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Recently, a folder titled "LrClassicLogs" has appeared in my Documents folder on my
Mac. I use my Documents folder for personal documents only, and would like to store the LrClassicLogs file in a less-obtrusive location.

Can a feature be added to LR Classic to allow for a user-selectable location (similar to how LR classic allows for the catalog file)?

28 replies

Inspiring
January 2, 2020
Same here - Mac running Catalina with the new Lightroom Classic 9.1.  Creates the file on startup of Lightroom.  I have never turned on logging, and I do not have the file config.lua either.  Hope an option becomes available to move this folder or to simply not create it when there is nothing to place in the folder.  Mine has never had anything inside the folder.  No logs - no folder maybe?
Inspiring
December 22, 2019
Agree - it seems like a no brainer to put the LrClassicLogs folder in Library/Application Support or, at a minimum, to allow the user to select where to put it.
Michael.Campanella
Participating Frequently
December 21, 2019
I am also getting this folder whenever I run Lightroom Classic.
This is really annoying and I wish Adobe would stop writing useless folders and files in the User's Documents folder. This behavior is incorrect. The folder is for users to use not applications. Library/Application support is a much more adapt place for all of these folders that Adobe apps insist on creating. 

Respect your users more, please.
Inspiring
November 26, 2019
I checked the above path and have no config.lua file.  My Help-System Info also shows 'Config.lua flags: None'

It seems to me that tweaking Lightroom to put the LrClassicLogs file in a "Logs" folder within ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/ would not result in too much user confusion.  Most people could find that easily...

At a minimum, an option to put the LrClassicLogs file in a user-selectable place would be very helpful for those of us want to keep the file out-of-the way.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2019
I did have an old config.lua file, but trashing that does not stop Lightroom creating the folder again when I delete it. Help - System Info says 'Config.lua flags: None'
-- Johan W. Elzenga
Just Shoot Me
Legend
November 25, 2019
No such config file on my iMac and that folder is still being created (No logging enabled either).
Just Shoot Me
Legend
November 25, 2019
Never enabled Logging on my Mac or Windows system for LR, Ever.
That folder still is there with V9 on my iMac.
Only appeared with the install and first running and converting of a V8 catalog of LR Classic V9. Wasn't there before.
Adobe Employee
November 25, 2019
Is there a config file @ ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/config.lua? Could you please check if the same has any loggers enabled? If you remove them from the config file, the LrClassicLogs folder should not get created.
Adobe Employee
November 25, 2019
JB,

It seems that you might have enabled logging for Lr Classic some time in the past. Can you share your system info from 'Help->System Info' menu option to help us detect if any logger is enabled on you machine?

-Satish
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 24, 2019
Maybe Adobe decided to do this on MacOS only, because the logical location for a log file would be in the user/Library folder. But as that folder is hidden by default, that may only create an extra problem they didn't want to have to deal with.
-- Johan W. Elzenga