Mysterious "Logs" file

[icecoldblood (OP)]

So today I was poking around my computer when I found a folder named "Logs" in my C drive. Inside are empty folders named after every aurora game I ever created.
There was also a text file named "service_log" which has this:

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Wed Sep 19 07:24:00 2012 UTC : Failed to create Service pipe (2)
Wed Sep 19 07:24:00 2012 UTC : Failed to connect to Steam Service (131)

There are also files named Y1,txt up to Y21,txt. they are text files but have "," instead of "." as the suffix
These files contain what appear to be aurora event logs. However, they not only detail player race events, but also NPR and Spoiler race event logs.

Here is one of them, Y1,txt:http://pastebin.com/wrzjEhvJ
You can see that there are player race, NPR and spoiler events recorded.

Sooooo what are these doing there? aren't event logs saved to where Aurora is installed to? In my case its in Documents.

[Erik L]

The log files are generated by Aurora. They live off the root of the drive Aurora is installed to. Mine is on the D drive. As for the service_log file, maybe Steve is attempting to integrate Steam into Aurora?

[Tomato]

Is there any way to move the "Logs" folder from root to Aurora working directory? Or to completely forbid log files creation?

[Jikor]

If you use the portable launcher tool it manages the logs folder. It can't be moved or prevented but that tool will create and remove it when you exit the game.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,191.0.html