# Combatlog not... logging?

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**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/combatlog-not-logging/9127 "2020-02-03T05:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blackbessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Blackbessie](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Blackbessie)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/combatlog-not-logging/9127/1 "2020-02-03T05:22:27Z")

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I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, I have warcraft logs up, I hit live log before we start our first pull (I ensure it goes into the folder I want it to go into so I can find it, select guild, mark public, hit Go!etc), and do the command /combatlog. The chat comes back and says something like “combatlog started”. I figure everything is hunkydory, and we head into our raid. After we are done and the raid lead calls it for the night, I type the command again, and it replies that combat logging has ended, I alt tab to the warcraft logs launcher and hit stop, and click view report. It takes me to ([https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/HZjDtXNwKPFAfagR/](https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/HZjDtXNwKPFAfagR/)), but it’s a blank black screen that says “This report contains no fights yet.”

I mouse over our Guild and click on reports on that page and this is what I see.  
([https://gyazo.com/234a1d164e06853ce26dfc2e1985c419](https://gyazo.com/234a1d164e06853ce26dfc2e1985c419))

What have I done wrong? We’re casual raiders and just wanna see how we do and who is standing in the mechanics, etc.

Any help or guidance is welcome.

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**Author:** ![sbowesuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@sbowesuk](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/sbowesuk)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/combatlog-not-logging/9127/2 "2020-02-04T14:52:01Z")

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You may have missed this crucial step:

- In the game, go to System Settings -\> Network -\> then tick/enable ‘Advanced Combat Logging’

I suspect that’s what you’re missing, but if not, then I’m not sure what the issue might be.

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**Author:** ![Kihra](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.combatlogforums.com/kihra/32/1116_2.png) [@Kihra](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Kihra)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/combatlog-not-logging/9127/3 "2020-02-04T18:20:08Z")

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If its live logging, sometimes people pick the incorrect directory to monitor. Note the logs folder is under a retail subdirectory these days.

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**Author:** ![Blackbessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Blackbessie](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Blackbessie)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/combatlog-not-logging/9127/4 "2020-02-05T23:27:18Z")

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Thank you for replying! I’ll check through my settings again to see if there’s something I missed.

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**Author:** ![Blackbessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Blackbessie](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/u/Blackbessie)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://forums.combatlogforums.com/t/combatlog-not-logging/9127/5 "2020-02-05T23:28:05Z")

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Thanks for this! I found one of my logs in the WoW\>retail\>Logs folder. Thank you so much, this will help us out immensely.