Local VCS out of control!!!

Doug wrote:

My VCS/vault directory is blowing up to over 60 GB! Of course at that point I have to kill off Idea - the only way I can run Idea is with Local VCS disabled.

I'm new to the VCS behind Idea, so I'm hoping someone can give me some advice here. What are the consequences of disabling VCS? How can I control it? It seems like culprit of this memory explosion is a certain log file that no longer exists under my project (The bigger directories under in my vault directory contain dozens of copies of this log file at ~150 MB each). I deleted the bigger directories under my vault dir, but they are regenerated just the same.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

Does the log file somehow get generated by your application, or by an
Ant build process?

You could consider marking the folder where the log file appears as
'excluded'. Go to Settings > Paths, and mark the folder in the
associated module.

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Rob Harwood
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"Develop with pleasure!"

Thanks for the response.

It is a runtime generated log file that I found and deleted, but it is still being regenerated by Idea in my vcs/vault directory.

I can exclude the directory where the file was originally created and that allows me to re-enable the Local VCS but when I restart the project later, the issue re-occurs during synchronization.

I started another thread for this in the community forum, if you want to see what transpired there. Any help/insight with VCS would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks again.