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You can configure the type of messages that are displayed in the main status log window during an indexing session here. This allows you to configure Zoom to only log certain messages types as necessary, which can be useful if you wish to minimize the messages produced so it's easier to filter through.

Log modes

There are two main logging modes.

"Basic" omits the following message types: Skipped, Filtered, Spidering, Thread info, Initialization. When this mode is selected, these messages will not be recorded and you will not be able to toggle them on or off from the "Log" window.

"Detailed" enables and logs all message types. Note that you can still filter them on-the-fly on the "Log" tab window.

Log HTML warnings

When this option is disabled, warning messages regarding invalid HTML code will be suppressed (e.g. "Suspected invalid HTML ...", etc.). Note that HTML warning messages are important to help you find broken HTML code, and also to be alerted to why certain pages may not have been indexed correctly. If you cannot find the cause of the "invalid HTML" warning messages, you should try running the web page in question through a HTML validator such as http://validator.w3.org/

Log to file

You can ask Zoom to write the contents of the index log window to a file, allowing you to archive or view the log at a later date with any text editor.

To enable this, check the "Save index log to file" option and specify the filename and path of the file which the index log will be written to.

The "Debug mode" option is used to help resolve crash issues and other situations where you will need the log file to be written to disk per line entry. It will also enable additional debugging information to be displayed in the index log.