FileTarget Properties

Gets or sets the size in bytes above which log files will be automatically archived. Zero or negative means disabled.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to trigger archive operation based on time-period, by moving active-file to file-path specified by ArchiveFileName

Legacy archive logic where file-archive-logic moves active file to path specified by ArchiveFileName, and then recreates the active file. Use ArchiveSuffixFormat to control suffix format, instead of now obsolete token {#}

Gets or sets a value indicating whether any existing log-file should be archived on startup.

Gets or sets the format-string to convert archive sequence-number by using string.Format

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to automatically flush the file buffers after each log message.

Gets or sets the log file buffer size in bytes.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to create directories if they do not exist.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to delete old log file on startup.

Gets or sets whether or not this target should just discard all data that its asked to write. Mostly used for when testing NLog Stack except final write

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to enable log file(s) to be deleted.

Gets or sets the file encoding.

Gets or sets the name of the file to write to.

Gets or sets the footer.

Gets or sets the header.

Gets a value indicating whether the target has been initialized.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to keep log file open instead of opening and closing it on each logging event.

Gets or sets the layout used to format log messages.

Gets or sets the line ending mode.

Gets the logging configuration this target is part of.

Gets or sets the maximum days of archive files that should be kept. Zero or negative means disabled.

Gets or sets the maximum number of archive files that should be kept. Negative means disabled.

Gets or sets the name of the target.

Gets or sets the maximum number of files to be kept open.

Gets or sets the maximum number of seconds that files are kept open. Zero or negative means disabled.

Gets or sets the maximum number of seconds before open files are flushed. Zero or negative means disabled.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to replace file contents on each write instead of appending log message at the end.

Gets the object which can be used to synchronize asynchronous operations that must rely on the .

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to write BOM (byte order mark) in created files.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the footer should be written only when the file is archived.

Gets or sets whether to write the Header on initial creation of file appender, even if the file is not empty. Default value is , which means only write header when initial file is empty (Ex. ensures valid CSV files)