CFW Slowdown / lockup help request

[RyTie]

Hello Hivemind,

I'm hoping you guys can help me figure out what is going on with my switch in CFW. The issue seemed to start when I updated my switch to OFW 18.0.1 and CFW Atmosphere 1.7.1. On a fresh boot of the console it worked great for a few hours, however I noticed that after some time it would start to slow down, and then nearly become impossible to use. This issue bothered me alot so I did a large number of different steps to try and fix it.

1. I completely reinstalled the SD card files from scratch following a number of different reputed guides and or file packs. All of them seemed to give me the same issues in varying levels of speed (meaning the same problem would happen but sometimes it would happen much faster)
2. Thinking it might be a SD card issue I replaced the SD card with a brand of micro SD that is recommended by most people, the same issue persisted between both cards
3. I replaced the Micro SD Card READER Thinking I may have caused damage at some point by poppin it in and out so many times. The new SD card reader seems to work great but the issue still persists.
4. I rolled back my OFW and CFW to the exact same numbers I had prior to the issue starting to show its head. However, the issue still persisted.

Now I'm kind of in a state of workaround, I have a folder on my desktop where I keep stock HATS pack and if I put my SD into my PC, Remove all files and Folder except my nintendo folder where games are installed, and copy over the HATS pack which I have seen as the most recommended easy AIO Pack, I can launch the system into Hekate and then into CFW. The system will work flawlessly if you launch a game pretty shortly after and its fully functional. But if you leave it overnight, or a day or 2 on the dock, the slowdown returns

I have noticed that when I reset the card there is a VAST number of files that are all just named a long string of characters. I think this might be some sort of log or error logging? But I don't know what would be causing it, how to stop it, or what I can do to make it not happen anymore, because it's very frustrating to have to completely remove my SD card just to keep it functional. Is there maybe some way I can figure out what is logging and where its saving and clear the foldering with something like NXDump or a on system file explorer?

Haaaaalp i've been trying to figure it out for a month now

 

[Nephiel]

Those long-named files ¿are they all in the atmosphere/erpt_reports folder by any chance?

 

[RyTie]

Those long-named files ¿are they all in the atmosphere/erpt_reports folder by any chance?

You sir nailed it on the head! And when I went to check this, I checked hte number of files logged since I restarted and restored the SD earlier this morning and it has already grown to over 30,000 files. It seems i've found my bog down but how to fix it! D: Do you have any sage advice?

 

[Nephiel]

Sounds like this kind of issue. Check the status of your linked account, if any, maybe try unlinking it in CFW.