# Accidentally deleted "live log"

**URL:** <https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/accidentally-deleted-live-log/15022>\
**Category:** Warcraft Logs\
**Created:** [January 3, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/accidentally-deleted-live-log/15022 "2024-01-03T04:53:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aliento](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Aliento](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Aliento)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/accidentally-deleted-live-log/15022/1 "2024-01-03T04:53:16Z")

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This was my first time using warcraftlogs and I accidentally created several empty “live logs”. While deleting them, I think I also deleted a real log from the raid I just ran. And, now I’m realizing that the log is not backed up anywhere on my computer because I hadn’t enabled /combatlog at the time.

Is this log saved anywhere, or is it gone forever?

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**Author:** ![Vel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.combatlogforums.com/vel/32/1896_2.png) [@Vel](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Vel)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/accidentally-deleted-live-log/15022/2 "2024-01-03T13:10:16Z")

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Hi there, if you didn’t do /combatlog in-game, there was no text file created. You need to do /combatlog for the game to create the text file. The live log option in the Uploader is ONLY for uploading said text file, it does not create the combat log.