cs,
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Forced to use #Outlook in your office environment? Ever looked in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Outlook Logging ?

Just found over 10,000 files in there, consisting of almost 9 GB of junk logs. My #Windows 10 identifies these as "Windows Performance Analyzer Trace Files." I deleted all files older than a month, leaving 750Mb (just in case), but cleared 10GB for use.

I don't think these are identified by Tools|General|Disk Cleanup as temporary files for deletion.

cs,
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It's wild to me that I have 750mb logs in the course of a month and that there is no process for cleaning up these logs.

18+ cs,
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Apparently some people have this problem, and it's filling up SSDs and networks with this stuff.

One option is to create a file with the same name as the directory and preventing Outlook from writing there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/o365/comments/v2m0ep/anyone_elses_outlook_etl_log_files_piling_up/?rdt=63074

cs,
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#DebugDiag installed for some reason in 2015 has been making near-daily logs since then, and with over 1,500 files...deleting the logs freed up 3+GB of files.

Why don't these things clean up after themselves?

cs,
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I could not find anything on the web that indicated these files were needed for the proper operation of Outlook or Windows, so I nuked them.

Your mileage may vary. Proceed at your own risk.

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