Could somebody help me to copy quickly some user created files from one computer to another? The synchronizing does not work quickly.
Greetings,
Piet Huttenga
Could somebody help me to copy quickly some user created files from one computer to another? The synchronizing does not work quickly. Greetings, Piet Huttenga
I cannot help you with moving files from one computer to another, but I do want to tell you that you are not the only one who has complained about synchronizing. It takes L4 about four to five days to move my data from one machine to another.
It takes L4 about four to five days to move my data from one machine to another.
Wow! Mine almost always happens in just a few minutes at the most. It usually happens by the time I close one and open the other. I can't remember it ever taking that long.
Wonder what makes the difference.
Could somebody help me to copy quickly some user created files from one computer to another?
Which ones are the problem eg. Collections, Notes? How many?
The short answer is that this can't be reliably done at this point.
The question of why synchronizing is taking so long is a valid one.Do you have a very slow (e.g. dialup) connection, or is there some other reason synchronizing is taking so long? For me as well syncing takes less than a minute (only user documents that have been changed since your last session should be synced). If this is taking significantly longer, and you do not have a slow internet connection, nor many, large user files, we may want to look at some logs and see if there's something else going on.
One issue that some have had is that you must let Logos finish syncing before you shut it down, or hibernate, or sleep your computer. You can tell syncronization is finished by hovering over the circled arrows in the upper right. When synchronization is finished you'll see a message on hovering over those arrows that tells you "Synchronization is enabled and all items are up to date," Then it's safe to shut down Logos, (or hibernate/sleep your computer).
It seems to be working now, but for some time, it was not working properly. Do I have to give a command then?
Thank you all very much for your help,
Piet
The command Sync now seems to sync (I'm not sure how to test and confirm it). Note that you would have to run this command first on the computer from which you want to upload the documents. Then, after a successful sync, run it from the computer to which you want to download the documents.
BTW, though I can't confirm this either, clicking on the circled arrows (near the upper right) also seems to sync and may be equivalent to the sync now command (somebody correct me, if I'm wrong).
Richard, you're not wrong - clicking on the circled arrows is an alternative to using the Command box, it does the same thing.
It takes L4 about four to five days to move my data from one machine to another. Wow! Mine almost always happens in just a few minutes at the most. It usually happens by the time I close one and open the other. I can't remember it ever taking that long. Wonder what makes the difference.
I don't know. I have turned off the internet because it slows down my computer. Here is are two links that show the effect of sync on my computer: Internet/sync on:http://community.logos.com/forums/p/5778/219857.aspx#219857. Internet/sync turned off: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/5778/219938.aspx#219938 (take a look at the time stamps in the graphic to see how much faster L4 runs with Internet/sync turned off.
I have over 1/4 gig of notes, so I would not be surprised if the issue comes from L4 cannot handle the number of notes that I have.
Before I turned off the internet, I ran both my desktop and my laptop for 14 days straight. My desktop was running L4 24/7 for those days. The only time my laptop did not run L4 was when my laptop was in transit. My laptop did not stop syncing for the entire two weeks.
I have over 1/4 gig of notes
That is the major difference between our installations. My Notes.db is only 768k. That is definitely something Logos needs to address.
Memory may not be exact, but early in the L4 Win cycle (soon after release), Bob Pritchett commented that he envisioned notes as being something like jotting short comments in the margin of a print Bible. It seems that Logos did not design Notes for the way many users are seeking to use them. I believe it is time Logos did some rethinking on this feature. You probably already know that M J Smith began a thread on this subject to get a unified recommendation.
I primarily use L4 Mac, so I take note elsewhere, for notes in the Mac version are not even as usable as in the Windows version. Improvements have been made, but we are not out of the woods yet.
Just wondering as I write, if this might be part of the problem: running L4 on 2 systems simultaneously. When I use my laptop I shut down L4 on my desktop first. Whenever I run it on my desktop, I shut it down on my laptop first, so that there is only one instance of L4 running at any given time. Syncing about 18MB of notes takes less than a minute (though only changed notes/documents are actually synced). But even if it were a minute and we multiplied that by 30 (to get 360MB), it should still only take 30 minutes, not 14 days to sync (and you have less data than 360MB, right?). I wonder if Logos sync manager is just getting confused about which system is uploading and which is downloading at any given time.
What happens if you only have one instance of L4 running at any given time? How long does it take to finish syncing (upload/download) from one system? Then shut that instance down and load L4 on the other computer. How long does it take to finish syncing then? Now, assuming that this first time of getting things right may have taken longer than later syncing, do the same again, running L4 on only one system at a time. What happens to your syncing numbers then?
I'm asking out of curiosity, more than anything else. If your numbers are significantly better, running only one instance at a time, that would tell us something interesting about L4 that we could pass on to others. If there is no noticeable difference, that may be telling us something about what the data limitations of syncing might be. It may also tell us that there's something going on with your particular installation, but I'm not sure how we'd sort that out, or even know which issue was the actual culprit. Still it would be interesting.
Before I turned off the internet, I ran both my desktop and my laptop for 14 days straight. My desktop was running L4 24/7 for those days. The only time my laptop did not run L4 was when my laptop was in transit. My laptop did not stop syncing for the entire two weeks. Just wondering as I write, if this might be part of the problem: running L4 on 2 systems simultaneously. When I use my laptop I shut down L4 on my desktop first. Whenever I run it on my desktop, I shut it down on my laptop first, so that there is only one instance of L4 running at any given time. Syncing about 18MB of notes takes less than a minute (though only changed notes/documents are actually synced). But even if it were a minute and we multiplied that by 30 (to get 360MB), it should still only take 30 minutes, not 14 days to sync (and you have less data than 360MB, right?). I wonder if Logos sync manager is just getting confused about which system is uploading and which is downloading at any given time. What happens if you only have one instance of L4 running at any given time? How long does it take to finish syncing (upload/download) from one system? Then shut that instance down and load L4 on the other computer. How long does it take to finish syncing then? Now, assuming that this first time of getting things right may have taken longer than later syncing, do the same again, running L4 on only one system at a time. What happens to your syncing numbers then? I'm asking out of curiosity, more than anything else. If your numbers are significantly better, running only one instance at a time, that would tell us something interesting about L4 that we could pass on to others. If there is no noticeable difference, that may be telling us something about what the data limitations of syncing might be. It may also tell us that there's something going on with your particular installation, but I'm not sure how we'd sort that out, or even know which issue was the actual culprit. Still it would be interesting.
It could be. It was during this time that it took five days for a couple of minor changes to move from my desktop to my laptop.
Because sync is such a resource hog as I stated above, I have found a workaround to sync my notes. I still do all of my notes in L3, and I use the same program to sync my L3 notes that I use to sync all of my other docs. When I want to sync my notes in L4, I just delete the notes database file and type in import all command.
