Checking and Reverting Log Begone Filters When You Lose Important Errors

Over-filtering is the main risk with Log Begone. If a pattern is too broad, it silently eats error messages you need for troubleshooting, and you will not notice until something breaks and the log is empty of clues. Knowing how to audit and undo filters is essential.

Recognising Over-Filtering

Symptoms include: a mod fails to load or crashes but the log shows nothing useful, or a known error you expect to see is simply absent. If you recently added filters and then hit an unexplained problem, suspect the filter list first.

Auditing Your Filters

1. Open the Log Begone config file.

2. Read each entry and ask whether it could match more than the one line you targeted. Short, generic patterns are the dangerous ones.

3. Compare against your latest.log — are there categories of message that never appear anymore, even when they should?

Reverting a Filter

1. Delete the offending entry from the filter list (or comment it out if the format supports it).

2. Save the file and restart.

3. Reproduce the situation and confirm the message returns.

Best Practice

Keep a backup copy of the config before editing, so you can restore a known-good state instantly. Add filters one at a time and test after each, rather than pasting in a large batch. Narrow patterns tied to a specific mod or entry name are far safer than broad ones, and they are much easier to remove later when you no longer need them.