Logos 4 has made a positive move in taking away a lot of the grunt work in managing our libraries. This is something that has been long requested. Has the pendulum swung too far though and taken too much control away from the user.
George suggested I start a thread up on this issue so Logos can gauge feeback on what we would like to have better control over.
Two hot issues at the moment are re-indexing and downloading, and they do impact on each other as dowloading leads to re-indexing A good thread dicussing the issue of downloads can be found here. It discusses issues of knowing exactly what it is we are downloading before we download it.
There have also been numerous calls for be able to schedule downloading and re-indexing to a more suitable time for the user rather than it just happening in the background automatically. Ths automatic downloading has been of concern particulary to those who may be using their computer on the road, or hooked up via a internet connection at work, or those who have download limits per month with either extra charges for going over the limit or their acces speed is cut-down to dial-up speed - this would be a nightmare if one was in the middle of downloading a 500MB update.
I had issues with my systerm locking up while it was indexing and everytime comptuer restarted it would start indexing again, lock up and I would have to reboot again... the only way I got out of this cycle was to reboot into safe-mode and do a system restore to a point before this automatic process started. There should be a way for a user to gracefully stop a process.
Another area of concern for me in terms of Account Management is there is no option to export and import a license key. Yes the cloud handles this for us and that's great, but what happens if you can't access the cloud, and for whatever reason, need to restore your license - there is no way for the user to do this... You have probably made a significant financilal invesment in this product but there is no way for you to re-install the application and your license to acces your files if you outside the cloud. At that point the financial investment becomes worthless.
Are there other things you would like to see more control over please add your thoughts here. For instance you might want a stop button on a guide to stop it generating, Whether it be something I've already touched on in this post or something different., feel free to add those issues to this thread. Remember Logos has asked us to participate in this program in order for them to get honest feeback on where they are at in meeting our needs as users of the product, so this is your chance to help shape this product. It is ok to say there is an aspect of the program you are not happy with as it currently stands.
