Library Size Before Download

David Taylor, Jr.

Is there a way to know exactly how much space I would need on my laptop if I were to go ahead and download the rest of my library?

Christian Alexander

I have wondered this before. Hopefully someone from Logos will have a good way to do this. 

Dave Hooton

David Taylor Jr said:

Is there a way to know exactly how much space I would need on my laptop if I were to go ahead and download the rest of my library?

No!

You would get a rough idea if you stated the number of books you have + the Feature set and asked users about the size of their comparable installation. 

Note that doubling/tripling the number of books installed does not double/triple the installation size because you already have all the non-Library resources installed (4 to 8 GB) + your user documents (in \Logos\Documents).

NB.Mick

David Taylor Jr said:

Is there a way to know exactly how much space I would need on my laptop if I were to go ahead and download the rest of my library?

One idea for an approximation would be to start a new install of Verbum (or Logos, if it's Verbum you're currently running). Prior to actually downloading, the installation routine will give you the approximate size of a full installation download for your complete library. This would allow you to calculate a size difference to your current library (which is at the hidden folder c:\User\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Logos), which is the approximate size of the download to expect.

To this download size figure you need to add an estimate for the index of the incoming books, say a third or half of this size to arrive at the additional space actually needed for the Logos installation. Due to the way indexing works, where a complete index of the new books is built temporarily and then inserted as data chunks into the existing index, the actual process will need this indexing space twice, so a conservative estimate would say you need free space of twice the size difference you calculated at first.

Hope this helps a bit!  

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1310384#Comment_1310384

Thanks for the advice on this post. It has helped me a whole lot and it provided a good context clue for me to see.