Clear Old Combat Logs from SWTOR

If you parse combat while playing SWTOR using Orbs (Old Republic: Battle Parse) or StarParse, you may have a buildup of old combat logs. StarParse & Orbs give warnings about the number and size of logs in the combat log folder, but it doesn’t delete old entries for you. I wrote a small PowerShell script that is run daily via Task Scheduler that deletes combat logs older than a number of days. I use 7 days myself, but it could even be 1 day because I’ve never gone back and looked at a log that old.

# Define the folder path and the age threshold (in days)
$folderPath = "C:\Path\to\your\CombatLogs"
$daysThreshold = 7

# Get the current date and calculate the threshold date
$currentDate = Get-Date
$thresholdDate = $currentDate.AddDays(-$daysThreshold)

# Get all files in the folder older than the threshold date
$filesToDelete = Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -File | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $thresholdDate }

# Delete each file
foreach ($file in $filesToDelete) {
    try {
        Remove-Item -Path $file.FullName -Force
        # (optional) Write-Output "Deleted file: $($file.FullName)"
    } catch {
        Write-Output "Failed to delete file: $($file.FullName). Error: $_"
    }
}

$folderPath: Your combat logs are typically located in your Documents folder, specifically: “C:\Users\[username]\OneDrive\Documents\Star Wars – The Old Republic\CombatLogs”

$daysThreshold: The number of days to keep combat logs before deletion

Running the Script Daily

To run this script daily, you can create a scheduled task in Windows Task Scheduler:

1. Open Task Scheduler:
   You can find it by searching for “Task Scheduler” in the Windows start menu.
2. Create a New Task:
   • Select “Create Basic Task”.
   • Name your task and give it a description.
   • Choose “Daily” for the trigger.
   • Set the start date and time for when you want the task to run.
   • Select “Start a Program” for the action.
   • Browse to powershell.exe as the program/script.
   • Add the script file path (e.g., C:\Path\To\Your\Script.ps1) in the “Add arguments” field.

It’s that simple, and you no longer need worry yourself with cleaning up your old useless combat logs.