I have added a watch group complete with keys and a task, and I can see the events in the log, but LogWatcher isn picking them up. What is going on?
Make sure the Scanner is turned on. The tray icon ( in the lower right corner of the screen ) should be green, and should say “Acrasoft LogWatcher – Running” when you put the mouse over it. If the event occurred before you added your key(s), LogWatcher may have already moved past that point in the log. You will have to wait for the next occurrence of the event. If you have recently restarted LogWatcher, you may have the settings configured to “always scan from the ends of logs”. This will cause LogWatcher to ignore everything that occurred before the startup time.
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