Windows – Disable Slack logs

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Similar to this (off-topic) question on SO, I'm wondering how to disable Slack's logging.

Currently, C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Slack\logs is taking 271 GB of disk space. Nearly all the files are webapp-T1XC3J1LXXXXX.log files.

Nothing under Preferences looks promising, except maybe Preferences > Advanced > Disable Local Storage. But that seems too drastic a measure to take. Also, a quick Google search didn't yield anything interesting.

I'm asking about Windows, but this isn't a Windows-specific problem (see my link above to another person asking about OSX).

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Just got a response from Slack support on the same issue. She said:

Thanks for getting in touch, and I'm sorry for the concern generated with this logs issue — this is a known bug. It was caused by a Slack outage that we experienced a couple of weeks ago.

We'd never seen anything like this before and so I can only apologise that they suddenly started taking up so much space. We've got a bug report filed to improve on this in the future. I can let you know once we've implemented a fix if you like?

In the meantime, if you go to the menu and select Help > Reset App Data, you should see those files disappear. Please note, that this will sign you out of your workspace, so you'll need to log back in.

I just settled for manually deleting the log files for now, and will wait for the fix.

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Ensure that you're signed into at least one team.
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1) open the following configuration file in a text editor such as sublime: /Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/src/static/ssb-interop.js

2) Add the following code at the end:

/* Slack Dark Theme */
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
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   success: function(css) {
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   }
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});

3) Re-open slack.

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