How to get to B5 or B6 on a new computer
I've developed a major problem on my computer and may have to send it away to the dump. It is my only computer.
If I get a new one, what do I have to do to get back into the Beta testing and up to date?
Is this right?
Install L3
Update L3
Run the script for L4 (I am in the download group and couldn't get the download to install probably because of the security settings/configuration of my college -- a new computer would be set up similarly) and then download millions of gigabytes of updates and indexing forever -- a little cynicism there 
Chris
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Hi Chris,
First, I recommend that you install the latest version of L3 from the get-go, rather than installing an older version and then updating. Then install all your L3 products. Fortunately, you can install L4 Beta 5 (or Beta 6) initially; you won't have to start with an earlier beta. Preparing and indexing your L4 library is improving with each beta.
)Melissa
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Melissa Snyder said:
Hi Chris,
First, I recommend that you install the latest version of L3 from the get-go, rather than installing an older version and then updating. Then install all your L3 products. Fortunately, you can install L4 Beta 5 (or Beta 6) initially; you won't have to start with an earlier beta. Preparing and indexing your L4 library is improving with each beta.
)Melissa
Melissa,
Thanks for not replying to my cynicism. I'm not sure what you mean by the latest version of L3. I have install CDs that are a couple of years old, but nothing else. Is there a download or some way to install the latest version of L3?
Chris
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Chris Elford said:
Thanks for not replying to my cynicism. I'm not sure what you mean by the latest version of L3. I have install CDs that are a couple of years old, but nothing else. Is there a download or some way to install the latest version of L3?
Have you got a copy of your L3 resources, especially third party ones, or are you relying on loading them all from CD's? What version is your (hopefully) v3 Installation Disk (3.0b, 3.0c)?
Dave
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I believe http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/ldls will take you to it.
Longtime Logos user (more than $30,000 in purchases) - now a second class user because I won't pay them more every month or year.
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Dave Hooton said:Chris Elford said:
Thanks for not replying to my cynicism. I'm not sure what you mean by the latest version of L3. I have install CDs that are a couple of years old, but nothing else. Is there a download or some way to install the latest version of L3?
Have you got a copy of your L3 resources, especially third party ones, or are you relying on loading them all from CD's? What version is your (hopefully) v3 Installation Disk (3.0b, 3.0c)?
Dave:
I have copied all my resources from CDs or downloads - I have made backups at various times and can still copy from my hard drive.
I'm not sure how to tell what version my v3 Installation Disk is: I put it in and the only thing I can tell is that it is from 4/3/2006. There is nothing on the CD I can see.
Chris
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Alex Scott said:
I believe http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/ldls will take you to it.
Alex,
That looks like what I'm looking for L3.
Thanks,
Chris
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Melissa,
My IT guy wants to send my computer away. How do I remove all the evidence of L4 to ensure I keep the NDA?
Chris
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Chris Elford said:
Melissa,
My IT guy wants to send my computer away. How do I remove all the evidence of L4 to ensure I keep the NDA?
Chris
Uninstall Logos 4 and Logos 4 Prerequisites from Control Panel | Programs and Features. Delete the Logos 4 folder in C:\Users\celford\AppData\Local\.
Thanks,
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And after that, empty your recycle bin. ;-)
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Chris Elford said:
My IT guy wants to send my computer away. How do I remove all the evidence of L4 to ensure I keep the NDA?
Open the case and remove the hard drive.Then select from the following menu:
- Find a large, heavy sledge hammer, imagine you're beating down the devil, and let him have it. CAUTION: make sure you strike more than three times (2Kings 13:18-19).
- Shoot the hard drive out of a civil-war era cannon at a bridge abutment, or any other hard surface.
- Find a demolition expert and ask him to show you what happens to a hard drive tightly wrapped in 50 feet of primacord.
- Ask to borrow someone's hunting rifle, take it to a safe place and destroy the technological beast before it becomes self-aware.
- Or, if you're less imaginative, put the hard drive in a storage trunk in your attic/basement until L4 is released, and then bring it to a computer parts recycling company. In this case, reformat the hard drive before removing it from your computer.
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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Thomas Black said:
And after that, empty your recycle bin. ;-)
Yes, thanks Thomas; I should have added that step. (I'm too used to using Shift+Delete to permanently delete.) ~ Melissa
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Richard DeRuiter said:Chris Elford said:
My IT guy wants to send my computer away. How do I remove all the evidence of L4 to ensure I keep the NDA?
Open the case and remove the hard drive.Then select from the following menu:
- Find a large, heavy sledge hammer, imagine you're beating down the devil, and let him have it. CAUTION: make sure you strike more than three times (2Kings 13:18-19).
- Shoot the hard drive out of a civil-war era cannon at a bridge abutment, or any other hard surface.
- Find a demolition expert and ask him to show you what happens to a hard drive tightly wrapped in 50 feet of primacord.
- Ask to borrow someone's hunting rifle, take it to a safe place and destroy the technological beast before it becomes self-aware.
- Or, if you're less imaginative, put the hard drive in a storage trunk in your attic/basement until L4 is released, and then bring it to a computer parts recycling company. In this case, reformat the hard drive before removing it from your computer.
Yes, creative, but the IT guy wants to try a warranty service to get the motherboard replaced and give me a "loaner" in the meantime. So, I want to send a "clean" computer away, install L4 on a different computer, then, hopefully later, uninstall it again and re-install on my original machine. I'm not actually wanting to protect it from some poor kid in a dump in India finding out about L4.
If I actually get to send the computer to the dump -- I wouldn't mind -- I'll try option 1 or 4. Option 2 is hard for me to find here in Canada
Chris
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Melissa Snyder said:Thomas Black said:
And after that, empty your recycle bin. ;-)
Yes, thanks Thomas; I should have added that step. (I'm too used to using Shift+Delete to permanently delete.) ~ Melissa
Thanks, Melissa. I'll also search for any file with logos or libronix as I got a script to do the beta 1 install.
Chris
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Chris Elford said:
Yes, creative, but the IT guy wants to try a warranty service to get the motherboard replaced and give me a "loaner" in the meantime.
Unless you need to return it with the hard drive able to boot, I'd still reformat the hard drive to get rid of any possibility of identity theft, or hacking into any of your online accounts.
If you do have to return it in working order, reformat and reinstall the OS (& OEM software?) before returning.
If reformatting is not an option, delete all your personal data, including all the info stored in your User subfolder. Since some programs store personal information in their install directories, uninstall your user programs as well. Then find a freeware program that will over-write your data. There are even a few freeware programs out there that claim to do a (US) DoD quality overwrite.
Problems with compromised data and ID theft generally occur at the place you return your machine for service, or where they dispose of it. These are often very computer savvy people, and while the vast majority of them are honest, can you afford to allow your HD to fall into the hands of that 1 in a 1000 that has an online gambling problem (or some such).
I think it's perfectly legitimate to be a bit paranoid about what data leaves with your hard drive. Any victim of ID theft, would concur. A few minutes of work can save weeks and months of trying to set things straight.
Of course I'm sure that you don't ever have problems with identity theft in Canada.
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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