Mouse Without Borders: Excessive Logging

[towiat]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.89.0

Installation method

WinGet

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Mouse Without Borders

Steps to reproduce

Coincidentally, I noticed that MWB creates log files in three different locations:

1. One log file per day named Log_YYYY-MM-DD.txt in the folder ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\MouseWithoutBorders\Logs\0.89.0.0
2. Another log file per day named mouseWithoutBorders-log_YYYY-MM-DD.txt in the folder ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\MouseWithoutBorders\LogsModuleInterface
3. Several log files per day in the folder C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\MouseWithoutBorders\Logs\0.89.0.0\

Also, there doesn't seem to be a process that cleans up these logs from time to time, so I had already collected several hundred of these files.

The files that I checked contained only INFO level messages, so it is questionable whether they should be logged by default anyway.

✔️ Expected Behavior

1. MWB should write logs to only one folder (ideally not the Windows system folder?)
2. MWB should have some cleanup process that removes logs periodically (e. g. logs older than 30 days are removed at startup?)

❌ Actual Behavior

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Other Software

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[vanzue]

We should at least remove the ones from the old version first — yes, and also inspect the logs to see whether all of them are worth logging.