Action log errors

[oblivion]

Sorry, this is one of those nasty intermittent things.

A couple of times in the last couple of weeks, I've had a report at startup that the action log database is corrupt and it's going to be wiped.

I've never touched the default settings, so it's remembered between sessions, remembers a maximum of 100 sets of actions with each entry having an unlimited number of actions. (I assume this means that a command to rename 1000 files is a single entry comprising 1000 actions, for instance?)

Anyway, while this hasn't caused me a problem, it's definitely a New Thing.

[admin]

Got a screenshot of that message?

[oblivion]

Sadly not. It politely told me that the action log would be deleted and gave me an OK button to press and without thinking, I just clicked on the button.

I'll remember to grab a screenshot if it does it again and I'm not in automatic pilot mode

[admin]

I guess it was this one:

ActionLogCorrupt.png

If it happens again you can press Cancel and send the file action.dat to support.

[oblivion]

Hmf. Well, that didn't work. I got the error again, hit cancel, found action.dat ready to send and it was a zero-byte file. So either cancel zaps it anyway, or I hit the wrong button (don't think so though) or it was already zero-bytes and that was different to what XY was expecting.

Next time, I'll leave the dialog where it is and see if I can pull action.dat out from under.

FWIW, I did the restart without saving to see if I'd get the same error -- I didn't -- and I went to look at action.dat and found it's 114 bytes of fairly sensible-looking hex values.

[admin]

Weird. I have never seen that error in my life.