I vaguely remember having a similar size concole.log file at one time and I trashed it without a problem. Personally, I'd do it..... but this email holds no warranties, implied or otherwise. ;-D Coj btw, I believe I opened it into the Console app in the Utilities folder and had a look (or at least attemted to) before I trashed it. revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> My buddy Brian has this problem on his g 5 running the latest Panther. - does anyone know why this was created - and what it is? - can he throw this out? - he said it appeared after a crash - which should he do about this? The file: Macintosh HD>Library>Logs>Console>brian>console.log.1 Was created on Saturday and is 2.4 GB. Nothing will open it (tried TextEdit, tired Word(showed 4 characters), tried Resorcerer (crashed)), and maybe it is unnecessary? Everything seems to be working fine, maybe I can just throw it away. Thanks! Brian -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat at hostalive.com [db-lists]