The Console Panel

Cordelia isn't available for macOS yet.

The console is the default view on launch, and the place every other action reports back to.

Choose Console in the navigation panel. Every other action reports back here.

The Cordelia console panel after an import, listing each imported file, an orange line for one that was rejected as a duplicate, and a final summary reading 3 of 4 files imported, with Copy all and Clear console buttons above the log.
The console after an import: each imported file, an orange line for a duplicate, a summary of 9 of 10 files imported, and each table's row count, with Copy all and Clear console above.

What it shows

A scrolling, read-only text area, similar to a traditional stdout/stderr log. As you create or open a database, import .FIT files, or export your data, Cordelia prints a running account of what it's doing, including anything worth flagging along the way. See Warning Messages and Error Messages for what those lines actually say.

Console text now matches whichever language Cordelia's interface is set to, the same as the rest of the app. A small number of crash/terminate messages stay in English regardless of interface language, on purpose. They only appear right before Cordelia aborts, and an English crash log is more useful if you paste it into a bug report.

Lines are colored by severity: errors in red, warnings in orange, everything else in the normal text color. This makes problems easy to spot, even while the console is scrolling quickly during a large import.

Console output showing orange warning lines for files that failed to import, some because they were already imported previously and some with FIT decode errors, interleaved with normal black-text import lines.
The console with a red line for a file that failed to import because the database is damaged.

Working with the text

The text itself is selectable and copyable. A Copy all button in the toolbar copies the whole console in one click, handy when reporting a problem (see Bug Reports and Feature Requests). A Clear console button is there for long sessions, once you don't need the earlier history anymore.

How much history it keeps

The console keeps the most recent 10,000 lines. This bounds memory during a large directory import, since thousands of files can generate a lot of output. Once that cap is reached, the oldest lines quietly drop off the top as new ones arrive.

See also