@Anonymous wrote:
I got it to stop again yesterday by launching every version of ACAD on my machine and making sure System printer spool alert was set to Never alert (do not log errors). I figured I was having trouble with the different versions overriding the setting on each other.
However, this morning it was creating them again in 2019. so I tried _logfileoff and logfilemode 0 (I honestly have no idea what these are doing, I'm desperate).
I also found this but I'm scared to mess with the registry and (see previous comment of I don't know what I'm doing).... aaaaand it is a 14 year old post.. :S
I'm going to try a full restart again and see what happens.
(someone should probably removed that 'solved' tag)
bill, how have your tests gone?
Not sure why you would be running multiple versions of the software, or if that even works with the licensing, (I won't go further on that subject). We only have one version of AutoCAD running on our computers, we removed the older versions once we migrated our settings. If we need to, we will save a file down to a previous version to send to other people not running the current versions.
I totally agree with being hesitant on messing with the registry. I try to avoid it unless absolutely necessary.
Since setting the system printer spool alert to "Never alert (do not log errors)" we haven't had any log files popping up. One thing to note, one of our employees already had that setting and his software was not generating the log files. Only myself and my other colleague.
We are a small office and have only three seats running. it's easy to track where the files are coming from.
Since we unchecked the