Using Logos 7 (7.12) With a Logos 4 Folder Taking Lots of Space

Bash
Bash Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Hi!

I am using Logos 7 on a Mac and notice that I have Logos4 folder that is using 32GB of my disk space. 

1. Why is this taking up so much of my disk space?

2. Can I delete this folder and not have any problems using my Logos 7?

~/Library/Application Support/Logos4

Please advise!

Thanks,

Bash

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,308

    Bash said:

    1. Why is this taking up so much of my disk space?

    2. Can I delete this folder and not have any problems using my Logos 7?

    It holds your resources (possibly 24 GB) and documents (c. 1 GB) and necessary indexes (c. 6 GB), so it would be wise NOT to delete this folder!

    Dave
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  • David Ames
    David Ames Member Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭

    Dave Hooton said:

    It holds your resources (possibly 24 GB) and documents (c. 1 GB) and necessary indexes (c. 6 GB), so it would be wise NOT to delete this folder!

    Due to crashes I had re-installed Logos three times last year.  

    I then found that in my case I had a Logos4 folder that had all of the old data (as listed by Mr Hooton) and a new folder with all of the same. 

    I found that the Logos4 folder was not being updated and, in my case, was a duplicate folder.  

    Having free disk space I left it there and it still is not being updated.

    [[Edited and rewritten after seeing Mr Hooton's post]]

  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,523

    Due to a bad choice MANY years ago, FL is stuck with having a “Logos4” folder even with fresh installs. As was mentioned, it is where resources, notes, indices, etc. are kept. 

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  • Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)
    Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :) MVP Posts: 23,165
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/955023#Comment_955023

    Bash said:

    2. Can I delete this folder and not have any problems using my Logos 7?

    ~/Library/Application Support/Logos4

    Welcome [:D]

    Deleting your Logos4 folder in Application Support followed by launching Logos 7 will cause folder to be recreated along with needing you to sign-in followed by resource downloading and indexing.

    JT (alabama24) said:

    Due to a bad choice MANY years ago, FL is stuck with having a “Logos4” folder even with fresh installs.

    Logos 4 Mac alpha pre-releases in 2009 used ~/Library/Application Support/Logos4 folder for application resources, indexes, documents, ... At the time, seemed OK to use Logos4 for Application name and corresponding Application Support folder, which also matched the Windows local folder naming convention. Turns out that renaming Application Support folder on OS X or macOS is technically challenging so Logos4 continues to be used. Lesson was learned for Verbum and Not, which have version agnostic Application Support folders. Logos 6 and newer on Windows also has version agnostic local folder.

    Keep Smiling [:)]

  • Bash
    Bash Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/954982#Comment_954982
    Thanks for the response!

    Bash

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