Journal File Missing

[Sidrus]

I'm using the Steam-installed version of the game, and I have my Steam library on my D:\ drive. I can't seem to locate my journal log files anywhere. My Google searches have turned up a number of different things, but none of them seem related to my issue. I did try some of the suggestions (Iike setting permissions on folders, manually creating the paths, etc).

I've looked in the following locations:

C:\Users\{userprofile}\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
This path didn't exist, so I created it, but it's never populated with data

C:\Users\{userprofile}\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
This path has a Journal*.cache file, which looks like the right data, but 3rd party tools don't recognize it. The file is definitely updating because I can see recent events in the log.

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-odyssey-64\Logs
Network logging worked and put the files here.

Based on the discussion here, I tried this also:
D:\Users\{userprofile}\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous

I also looked through the options to see if I missed some kind of toggle to enable logging output, but I didn't notice anything.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I would like to figure this out so I can use some of the 3rd party tools.

 

[Sidrus]

fwiw, it doesn't seem to be on my machine

 

[Sidrus]

Looks like I got is squared way.. hopefully this helps anyone else in this situation.

Somehow my Saved Games folder got mapped to some other profile (probably something I did while fooling around with Azure domains). That seems to have corrupted my registry entry that made the shell folder work.

I had to edit the following keys back to their default settings:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

Then I executed the following commands from an elevated command prompt:

# stop Windows Explorer
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

# Setup the folder permissions
attrib +r -s -h "%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games" /S /D

# Restart Explorer
start explorer.exe

Once I started up Elite Dangerous after that, all the files started showing up.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

i dont use 3rd party tools my self but would have thought this was correct
C:\Users\{userprofile}\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
it not it wont be on the d drive of that i am certain c only
as that is an os directory AV can be a bit picky there as to what is wriiten or read have you tried temp disabling av to see if it will allow the app to work and if it does some exceptions may be required
does the 3rd party tool not give instuctions as to what path it needs to work?

mine seem to be here
C:\Users\my name\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous

 

[Sidrus]

This is the default for the game:
C:\Users\{userprofile}\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous

3rd party tools generally look there by default or let you select any folder (in the event you moved things around).

My problem was that the folders themselves were messed up in the Windows registry, and the game couldn't write the data. Once that was fixed, ED could start writing data out and everything else started working.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

well if everything is working and you have found the journels i am at a loss
i woud bung all c drive frontier related folders you can find onto a desktop folder
and then delete them from there directorys and then reinstall the game so they are newly created then copy them back to the newly created relevent directorys that should sort any registry crap out