For those of us still using hard drives
Starting Logos is painfully slow if you still use a hard drive. Whatever layout seems to take forever to load and settle into place. Don't go there! Open up your program settings and change it to open with a blank layout. The next time you open up Logos it will open up blank. It does this a whole lot faster. Then open your last layout. It will do this much faster. It's an extra step but it's still way quicker than trying to get it to fire up with the layout in place.
I still want an SSD, but this is really easy and works great. Try it!
A big thank you/shout out to Steve Long who posted this great workaround on YouTube I am very grateful.
The mind of man is the mill of God, not to grind chaff, but wheat. Thomas Manton | Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. Richard Baxter
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Irrespective of drive type, set At startup open to (in Program Settings) to "Most recent layout - Local"**, as the layout will load faster and it will be saved on exit. If you first open to a "Blank layout", consider whether your "last" layout needs saving before you exit, else you will open a static layout.
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** if you need to share the layout between installations, you should choose "Most recent layout - Any".
Dave
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Dave Hooton said:
Irrespective of drive type, set At startup open to (in Program Settings) to "Most recent layout - Local"**, as the layout will load faster and it will be saved on exit. If you first open to a "Blank layout", consider whether your "last" layout needs saving before you exit, else you will open a static layout.
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** if you need to share the layout between installations, you should choose "Most recent layout - Any".
Dave
This gives slow startup on a hard drive. Yes, you should always save your last layout if you wish to go back to it, but if you open it to a layout on startup, you will spend a very long time waiting for "preparing your library" to finish on a hard drive. This doesn't happen if you open a blank layout. It is much shorter. Why this is so is beyond me, but the difference is amazing.
The mind of man is the mill of God, not to grind chaff, but wheat. Thomas Manton | Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. Richard Baxter
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I am curious. You state "those still using Hard Drives".. What other options are there besides HD's?.. Last time I read the paper, HD's are still current technology? No?
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The comparison is to SSDs which are known to radically improve performance over HDs (generally) but especially when using Logos.
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Rodney Phillips said:
I am curious. You state "those still using Hard Drives".. What other options are there besides HD's?.. Last time I read the paper, HD's are still current technology? No?
Curiousness is dangerous.
Most average Christians these days are adept at installing the perfect SSD, re-working system settings, and using high-end software with limited guidance. Indeed, having a 'hard-drive' is almost embarrassing to admit, in Bible class. (I'm joking.)
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Denise said:
Curiousness is dangerous.
Most average Christians these days are adept at installing the perfect SSD, re-working system settings, and using high-end software with limited guidance. Indeed, having a 'hard-drive' is almost embarrassing to admit, in Bible class. (I'm joking.)
ROFLOL, Denise!
Having installed a couple, I'll offer that you can usually find a Youtube video "How-To" for either YOUR PC/Laptop or one that's so similar that it doesn't matter. And the authors of those videos have made it easy for the rest of us to follow. IMO, the main risk is static discharge damaging one of the electronic components. To prevent that, we just need to be sure we're well grounded before handling any of the electronics. Blessings & courage, friends!
Grace & Peace,
Bill
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BillS said:Denise said:
Curiousness is dangerous.
Most average Christians these days are adept at installing the perfect SSD, re-working system settings, and using high-end software with limited guidance. Indeed, having a 'hard-drive' is almost embarrassing to admit, in Bible class. (I'm joking.)
ROFLOL, Denise!
Having installed a couple, I'll offer that you can usually find a Youtube video "How-To" for either YOUR PC/Laptop or one that's so similar that it doesn't matter. And the authors of those videos have made it easy for the rest of us to follow. IMO, the main risk is static discharge damaging one of the electronic components. To prevent that, we just need to be sure we're well grounded before handling any of the electronics. Blessings & courage, friends!
Your a more daring man than me Bill. Mechanics whether it be vehicles or computers remain a mystery to me.
My priority is to be grounded in the faith, I’ll leave the other grounding up to others.
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Denise said:
Most average Christians these days are adept at installing the perfect SSD, re-working system settings, and using high-end software with limited guidance. Indeed, having a 'hard-drive' is almost embarrassing to admit, in Bible class.
Of course they are. Just ask my brother who when I mentioned that my piano needed its pins replaced gave me a set of pins for Christmas and offered to lend me the tools. Same brother who gave me a calculus book for Christmas when I was in the fourth grade. I'm quite sure he never considered a division between able to/not able to only between done that/have to try that. It follows "Christians these days are adept at installing the perfect SSD, re-working system settings, and using high-end software with limited guidance."
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
Of course they are. Just ask my brother who when I mentioned that my piano needed its pins replaced gave me a set of pins for Christmas and offered to lend me the tools. Same brother who gave me a calculus book for Christmas when I was in the fourth grade. I'm quite sure he never considered a division between able to/not able to only between done that/have to try that. It follows "Christians these days are adept at installing the perfect SSD, re-working system settings, and using high-end software with limited guidance."
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In the early days of Apple, when you were supposed to write assembly, I wrote a lie detector, to help believers know when to repent. So, yes, Christianity and high-tech go hand in hand. Like early Christian adoption of 'books'! True.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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