Question / Help Text log or any other history of recording activity?

[Gene90]

Salutations to all users of OBS and members of the OBS forums! I'm not sure whether I am posting this thread in the right place, and I do admit that i did not do a proper Google search in regards to this topic, the reason for this is because i wouldn't understand anything anyways, I'm not much of a tech guy.

So anyways, my question is as follows: Whenever a recording has started and ended in OBS and a video file has been created, is there any text log or any other way to check the history of when and at what time was a file made? The reason for this question is because I made a bunch of videos and deleted most of them, keeping only the final edited version of the video I needed. But now I want to see how much raw files I had to start from. I don't need to restore them or anything like that, (this would be a different question and a different software obviously) I'm just curious whether OBS has some kind of a text log option. Thanks in advance for any answers.

 

[Gene90]

OK, bit of an update and I am answering my own questions here. The logs located at appdata/roaming/obs-studio/logs has all the answers to my questions, there is a full daily log file for each day that has all the details. However, I have just noticed that in the folder, there are 10 logs and everytime I load OBS, it overwrites the older text files for some reason. Is there a way to retrieve these older log files, or are the older ones gone forever? :((

 

[R1CH]

The older logs are deleted.

 

[Gene90]

Well, i did manage to miraculously restore the log file i was looking for, but not completely. The end of the text file has corrupted characters. I have one more question remaining and i will be really appreciative if someone who knows how these logs work can answer it. Does the log register EVERY single action based on the time that it occurred correspondingly in the file or can the text that is related to recordings be located somewhere at the bottom of the log file? I'm asking because the log file that i recovered doesn't state anything about recording activity, but i do know that i began making a video one minute after the log became all garbled up, at the time that is no longer specified in the log file (because it's corrupted). I will attach the mentioned log if that is of any help.

 

[koala]

Does the log file register EVERY single action based on the time that it occurred correspondingly or can the text that is related to recordings be located somewhere at the bottom of the log file?

Simply start OBS, start a recording, perform some action such as switching a scene, adding a source, configure a source. Then stop the recording and terminate OBS. Then restart OBS and open the previous logfile. Open it with a text editor of your choice, probably notepad. The previous logfile is the logfile where your actions are recorded, since you restarted OBS once. You will see what is contained in the logfile and what is not in there. I told to stop OBS before looking into the logfile, because there is additional information written to the logfile on OBS stop.