Bugzilla – Bug 7692
Accessing cache folder and logs via status page
Last modified: 2009-07-31 10:19:00 UTC
Arising out of a discussion that Michael Herger and I had with a forum user here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45673 Two main points came out of the thread: 1. Some newer users (and indeed those who have recently upgraded to 7.0) find it difficult to locate the cache folder. Attempts to direct them to it can be difficult because the cache location will vary by OS and OS version. Michael's preference is to point them to the status page, but this does not actually link to the cache folder, rather to the server and scanner logs which are in the same folder tree. 2. The links to the server and scanner logs don't open up the containing folder, but to a snippet of the logs themselves. Makes it difficult to see where the files are located - and it you need the whole log, it is necessary to note the location of the files from the Status page and then navigate manually (which rather negates the purpose of the link). Suggested enhancements - 1) an additional link on the Status page to the top level folder containing the cache and log folders (in XP parlance - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Squeezecenter) and 2) change the link to the log files on the Status page to the Logs folder so that the user can select the log they want and open up the entire thing (again in XP, that would be C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Squeezecenter\Logs).
> 2. The links to the server and scanner logs don't open up the containing > folder, but to a snippet of the logs themselves. It won't be possible to open the folder in any case, as pretty often the folder will be on a different machine than the one you're accessing the web interface from. But instead of displaying a few lines of the log we should give the user an option to get the last 10, 50, 100 etc. lines. Simple links will do (the code to do this is already there - try http://localhost:9000/server.log?lines=100). Downloading the full file might lead to overloading the server.
change 18287 - add links for 100/500/1000 lines of the log file to the status and logging page
We can't do much more than what I've done with the above change: provide easier access to more information in the log file. Direct folder access isn't possible.
Michael noted, but can't we add some kind of text to the status page to indicate the location of the cache folder? Otherwise people are going to continue to be confused at being referred on the forums to the status page, where there is no actual reference to the cache folder.
> Michael noted, but can't we add some kind of text to the status page to > indicate the location of the cache folder? While the cache folder has been there for a while, it wasn't not very prominent. change 18352 is making them stand out a bit more.
Verified fixed in 7.0.1 - 19597
This bug has recently been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Please try that version, if you still see the error, then reopen this bug. To download this version, please navigate to: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
Reduce number of active targets for SC