footie wrote:
I went through my system today moving a bunch of personal files, including financial stuff to a back up drive, so that we wouldn't have any personal stuff on the main HD. Then I went back and did a search to make sure everything was gone and some of the file names that I had been moving around showed up in the main console log file.
The same references were in the current syslog so I deleted it. For some reason, though, I couldn't delete the console log, even when using the console app. Another thread here in support suggested removing the console.plist file. That didn't do anything.
I really would like to get my personal financial file names out of the log. Is there a way to delete a few lines? Thanks to all for the feedback and excuse my paranoia.
One of the kids had a laptop stolen a while back and we were all bonkers over whether people could use it to get into their bank and college accounts.
OK that makes sense 🙂
In order to remove active console logs you have to turn logging off.
You can log into the system as a single user - hold down Cmd-s. I believe the logging will not run, but I could be wrong. If logging is off, you can cd to the log files and delete them.
You could also locate console.app in the Applications Monitor and stop it and see if you can delete the logs. However, console.app may restart on its own.
