vscode-powershell logs rotation

[o-l-a-v]

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Summary

Would be great if vscode-powershell could rotate its own log files, as in delete logs older than X days. Maybe a sane default would be 30 days, with a overridable setting in settings.json? Or only keep X latest logs no matter date and time, maybe 20?

PS > Get-ChildItem -Directory -Path ('{0}\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-vscode.powershell\logs' -f $env:APPDATA) |
    Sort-Object -Property 'LastWriteTime' |
    Select-Object -First 1 -Last 1

    Directory: C:\Users\olav.birkeland\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-vscode.powershell\logs

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d----          28.09.2022    15:02                1664370174-9c0cd76c-5603-4542-9722-a56b3e73645a1664370154962
d----          01.11.2024    10:40                1730454055-b57d49db-d6c5-49b0-8239-a5cd952e2a651730454050247

PS >

Ref: https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md#logs

Proposed Design

Get-ChildItem -Directory -Path ('{0}\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-vscode.powershell\logs' -f $env:APPDATA) |
    Sort-Object -Property 'LastWriteTime' -Descending |
    Select-Object -Skip 30 |
    ForEach-Object -Process {
        $null = Remove-Item -Path $_.'FullName' -Recurse
    }

[JustinGrote]

I'm currently updating the logging to use the LogOutputChannel, which does automatic rotation.
#5065

[andyleejordan]

Until then, they can be completely disabled so as to write no files. There's a setting somewhere, I definitely remember implementing that.

[JustinGrote]

@o-l-a-v the logs now rotate with VSCode. VSCode keeps the last 10 startup logs, you can use Open Extension Logs Folder command to access them quickly, and the powershell version has also been remapped to the specific powershell folder.

Thanks for your suggestion!