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Should not send log files to $HOME/.config/Code

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Describe the bug

This extension pollutes ~/.config folder with a whole bunch of aws_toolkit_*.log files.

My ~/.config folder is version controlled. I could add **/*.log to .gitignore, but that’s just a preventive approach. No extension, or any other code/app/service should write log files to ~/.config.

To Reproduce

Use the extension for a while.

Expected behavior

As a best practice it should send the logs to a log folder.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

AWS Toolkit for VSCode: v1.24.0

Version: 1.55.2 (system setup) Commit: 3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d Date: 2021-04-13T09:35:57.887Z Electron: 11.3.0 Chrome: 87.0.4280.141 Node.js: 12.18.3 V8: 8.7.220.31-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042

Additional context

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State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

justinmk3commented, May 10, 2021

Toolkit 1.25 stores logs in globalStoragePath , which should implicitly store data in a reasonable place (and not ~/.config).

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justinmk3commented, Apr 30, 2021

%APPDATA% aligns with typical interpretation of the XDG standard on Windows.

I think this issue would be fixed by https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/issues/582

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