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Application event log exceeding the maximum allowed counter

Somehow, the application event log count ended before 18,446,744,073,709,559,499. This causes MMC blocking when I want to see the event using the event viewer, throwing a System.OverflowException (the value was too big or too small for Int64). Any thoughts, or should I just clear the log?

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Maybe this will help if you enable the option to override old event logs when the log is full. This should prevent you from losing new journal entries when you reach the limit.

To activate the transition to your event log and go to their settings. There you can disable old entries if the log is full.

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Before clearing the application log, I first tried "Save all events as ...", but the file that it created was empty.

Then I copied C: \ Windows \ System32 \ winevt \ Logs \ Application.evtx to my desktop and this DID file was opened correctly. Not a big but acceptable job for my needs.

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