Perhaps if you can create a very small project recreating the issue, compress it, and upload it here, I could take a look? At your leisure.
With 4.8, you may try the Localization Dashboard experimental feature, which effectively gives a safer, user-friendlier graphic interface to the localization workflow.
You should be able to find logs in the project’s /Saved/Logs directory. I’m not familiar with any appropriate mechanism to keep the log window open.