"check for updates" menu option

I'd like to request a "check for updates" menu option. On both of my machines today I had to wait at least 10 minutes before Logos decided to go check if there was an update - the very thing I was waiting for. The help menu or main menu are the normal places.

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Cameron Watters (Faithlife)

I'd like to request a "check for updates" menu option. On both of my machines today I had to wait at least 10 minutes before Logos decided to go check if there was an update - the very thing I was waiting for. The help menu or main menu are the normal places.

You can type "Update Now" in the command bar to force it to check for updates immediately.

Dan

It would still be great (and more Mac like) to have "check for updates" as a menu option. Most Mac programs have it as a menu or as a setting in preference to check daily, weekly or every time I open it.

J.R. Miller

It would still be great (and more Mac like) to have "check for updates" as a menu option.

Not standard though... it is not even in Apple's Mail program

to check daily, weekly or every time I open it.

Logos will check every time you open the program for any updates.

Blessings

Jason York

the only reason why its not in apple's mail program is because all apple software is updated through the apple menu at the top left of the screen, where you can manually search for updates, but yes that is also automatic in searching every so often for new updates.

But, most non-apple software does have a "search for update" option somewhere in its menu options, often under the help menu.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

It would still be great (and more Mac like) to have "check for updates" as a menu option. Most Mac programs have it as a menu or as a setting in preference to check daily, weekly or every time I open it.

Observation: Apple Menu has "Software Update..." (with corresponding System Preference => frequency). Many Apple programs do not have update now (e.g. Safari, Preview, Pages, Numbers, Mail, Keynote, iCal, Grab, Address Book). Noticed iTunes has menu items "Check for Updates..." and "Check for Available Downloads..."; also iLife suite has "Check for Updates..."

Cross platform Firefox help menu has "Check for Updates..." - same as Microsoft Word 2008 and OpenOffice.

Keep Smiling [:)]

Cameron Watters (Faithlife)

Even if it is firmly established to be common, I suspect it'd be a fairly low-priority task at this point, for two reasons:

1) It's going to be used infrequently. We have automatic updates, which is the most important portion of that feature, even for apps that have the menu item.

2) We already have a mechanism to manually check for updates, even if it isn't easily discoverable.