Monthly Access After the Month is Over

What happens to the files downloaded to my computer for the free month-long access to special content, after the month is up and I don't buy the books I'm given the preview access to? Do they get deleted or clutter up my hard drive?

I'd like to know because on my Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3 I have limited storage and would hate after a year of subscriptions having precious space eaten up by books I can't open because I don't own them.

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Phil Gons (Logos)

We don't delete files automatically at this point. Losing licenses to files has been fairly uncommon to date. With Now and Cloud, it'll be a common occurrence. We'll give some thought to ways to clean up unlicensed files from your drive.

Mark Barnes

I don't think resources associated with temporary licences get deleted from your hard drive when the licence expires.

I don't believe the index is entirely deleted either, so there may still be some additional clutter there. Rebuilding your index should fix that, at least.

Dave Hooton

Both are true!

Andrew Malone

[Y] I'm happy to encourage Phil's plan to deal with unlicensed files. Today's 3.2GB cloudburst (as they're calling it in another thread) will be kind of messy to mop up – and up to 7GB for some.

Nathan Parker

Deleting resources that are no longer licensed to us is something Logos will need to address, especially after the "you know what" trial has been recently released.

Phil Gons (Logos)

We're aiming to including a "delete locked resources" command in Logos 6.4, which should ship on June 30, just in time for the end of the preview period. It's not for sure yet, but we're doing our best to get it in.

You'll need to rebuild your index through the "rebuild index" command. You can do this before or after running the "delete locked resources" command.