How-to · When something breaks

Read main.log when the screen says nothing

Find Turret's own log file when something broke and nothing on screen explains it.

Something in Turret broke, the screen gave no useful message, and you want to see what actually happened.

There is no Open log control anywhere in the app. main.log lives under <userData> instead, Turret's own data folder. Open the file in any text editor.

A window that fails to redraw several times running has Turret name this same path itself. It names the path in a native dialog or a system notification, never anything drawn inside the window. Reaching that point is not the normal way to find the file. Read it directly at the path above any time something else goes wrong.

See What a session leaves on disk for <userData>'s path on each platform, and the rest of what a session writes there.