So is it up to date or not? L7 argues with itself

I was having poor performance/slow response and noticed the Library was updating. Or was it? The sync wheel said no. (See screenshot)

So which side of the program is right?

(Perhaps this is the biblical response by the software: the right side doesn't know what the left side is doing.)

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Andrew Batishko

Syncing is the process of synchronizing user data with the server. Updating the library catalog is the process of updating the information in your library to account for recent changes to metadata, resource updates, resource availability changes, or other similar things. These process are not at all related.

scooter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/876050#Comment_876050

Syncing is the process of synchronizing user data with the server

What is user data? Perhaps highlighting and notes made are in this category. Please enlighten me.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/876053#Comment_876053

What is user data? Perhaps highlighting and notes made are in this category. Please enlighten me.

Anything that you see in the Documents or Guides menu, plus a few other things as well. Yes, this does include Note documents (which contain notes and highlighting).

Doc B

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/876050#Comment_876050

...the process of updating the information in your library to account for recent changes to metadata, resource updates, resource availability changes, or other similar things

I thought that was "indexing."

So how is indexing related to updating the library catalog?

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/876060#Comment_876060

...the process of updating the information in your library to account for recent changes to metadata, resource updates, resource availability changes, or other similar things

I thought that was "indexing."

So how is indexing related to updating the library catalog?

There are three different kinds of indexing that I can think of at the moment (ignoring ones that are obviously unrelated to this topic).

Resource indexing - This runs any time a resource is added or updated. This is indicated with the blue icon at the top of the application, and is handled by a separate indexer application that is automatically run as required. This enables searching for content in the resources. If a resource is updated and indexing has not finished, then searches may return results that are not correctly aligned with the words in the resource.
Document indexing - This runs a couple minutes after the last time any document or saved guide is created or changed. This enables searching for that content in the My Content section of the Basic Search. If that section is open in a search while document indexing is running, then a yellow notification bar will be displayed in the section indicating that results may not be correct.
Library indexing - This is one part of the process of updating the library catalog (there are a variety of other tasks that happen during this time as well). Library indexing is used for searching for various metadata associated with resources in your library. When this is out of date, the system may not be able to find the correct resources used to accomplish a particular task.

Doc B

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/876067#Comment_876067

Thanks Andrew. The conflicting messages are starting to make sense now.

It's not that I had never seen those messages...I've seen both. But I'd never seen them at the same time.