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How to post your logs to get help - Minecraft Launcher

You have to post links to your logs so people will be able to help you when asking for support.

The latest log file name is latest.log

The crash logs filenames will have the pattern crash-yyyy-mm-dd_hh.mm.ss-client.txt or crash-yyyy-mm-dd_hh.mm.ss-server.txt


Custom "Game Directory"

If the installation that is crashing has a custom “Game Directory” the log files will be located inside the custom “Game Directory” of the Installation.

The latest log can be found in customGameDirectory\logs\

The latest crash log can be found in the folder customGameDirectory\crash-reports\


Default "Game Directory"

FINDING THE MINECRAFT APPLICATION FOLDER:

Windows: Press Win+R and type %appdata%\.minecraft and press Ok

Mac OS X: In Finder, in the Go menu, select “Go to Folder” and enter ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft

Linux: ~/.minecraft or /home/<your username>/.minecraft/

The latest log can be found in .minecraft\logs\

The latest crash log can be found in the folder .minecraft\crash-reports


Twitch Launcher and others

Twitch launcher by default installs Minecraft instances in:

C:\Users\username\Twitch\Minecraft\Instances\instancename\

GD Launcher by default installs Minecraft instances in:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gdlauncher_next\instances\instancename\


Open the log file, copy the contents to the clipboard, and paste them in a paste, for example:

Once you submit the paste, you can use the paste URL in the Fabric Discord so others can help you

player/tutorials/logs_ml/windows.1595562220.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/07/24 03:43 by calloatti