Install on SSD
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Well, I installed to the SSD, but found out that 24 gigs isn't big enough. The first time I had a book update, it had to index. But the indexer kept crashing due to insufficient disk space. So I put it back as it was. It is really already more than acceptable anyway. It was a fun adventure. And I learned a little.
“... every day in which I do not
penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God’s Word in Holy Scripture
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Another update. I decided to create (3) soft links for index folders and resource folder. I will see what happens next time it needs to index. So far so good. I think I can tell a difference while scrolling in chapter to chapter transitions. They seem to be almost without hesitation.
“... every day in which I do not
penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God’s Word in Holy Scripture
is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the
firm ground of the Word of God.”0 -
Larry Good said:
All I can say is Logos should take to heart the motto "It Just Works" when it comes to installing the application where ever the user wishes.
I did successfully install Logos 4 on an SSD today, but I sympathize with any end user who has to take all the steps that are detailed on the various posts on this topic.
Really, it's just not acceptable in the current motif that modern computing environments enable
I agree — point is though there are two topics really:
- Logos enhancing the product so that users can choose during (and after) installation where they wish to store data files. If you want that then the thing to do is to put it officially on the Logos wish list.
- In the meantime helping each other out so that we can use facilities in OS X (Unix) to work around the limitation and hopefully achieve better performance.
The second option does require some usage of the OS X (Unix) command line but with detailed instructions it's doable.
"I want to know all God's thoughts; the rest are just details." - Albert Einstein
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Dewayne Davis said:
Well, I installed to the SSD, but found out that 24 gigs isn't big enough. The first time I had a book update, it had to index. But the indexer kept crashing due to insufficient disk space. So I put it back as it was. It is really already more than acceptable anyway. It was a fun adventure. And I learned a little.
It's not specifically that 24 GB is not big enough but really how big is your Logos library and how much disk free space you have on the SSD. The symptom you mention could just as easily happen on a HDD.
My Logos 4 folder is 9.1 GB, I have a 60 GB SSD drive, obviously in my case it has no problems. I don't know how much disk free space Logos 4 needs during indexing etc. but as a (really) safe rule of thumb I would say that you should have a disk of double the data space. So if your Logos 4 folder was 20 GB then the SSD should be 40 GB or more.
Good luck [:)]
"I want to know all God's thoughts; the rest are just details." - Albert Einstein
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Dewayne Davis said:
Another update. I decided to create (3) soft links for index folders and resource folder. I will see what happens next time it needs to index. So far so good. I think I can tell a difference while scrolling in chapter to chapter transitions. They seem to be almost without hesitation.
Well the time came to index, and sure enough, still not enough room. However, I found a rather quick workaround. I drug the two softlinks to the desktop and renamed the two index folders. Then I started Logos and let it index. It reads the books from the SSD and creates the index internally. Once complete, I just drug the two index folders to the SSD, replacing the outdated ones. Then I renamed the folders "old" again, drug the softlinks back in place and done! Not a bad workaround.
“... every day in which I do not
penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God’s Word in Holy Scripture
is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the
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Jumping into the time machine, forward to May, 2015....
My SSD (main) drive (256GB) on my MacBook Pro is almost full, just with Logos 4 and Outlook files. I'm trying to transfer the Logos4 directory to my 128GB 3.0 Micro SD flash drive, without apparent success. I've copied a screenshot of my repeated failures. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
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Mark A. Ellis said:
Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
What is the terminal output for these two commands:
ls -l ~/Library/"Application Support"/Logos*mountNote: the list (ls) command shows information in your Application Support folder. The mount command shows all Volumes mounted (without quotes).
Wiki has => https://wiki.logos.com/Install_in_different_folder_or_drive#OS_X
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Good morning, Pat
Thank you for attending my question. My efforts to create a link to my flashdrive were attempts to implement the wiki page you referenced. I just got confused/lost on point "E".
I've pasted the terminal output below:
Last login: Mon May 18 08:31:24 on console
MacBookPro:~ drmarkellis$ ls -l ~/Library/"Application Support"/Logos*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 drmarkellis staff 1825872 May 17 14:48 /Users/drmarkellis/Library/Application Support/Logos4 Alias
/Users/drmarkellis/Library/Application Support/Logos4:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 drmarkellis staff 136 May 17 14:09 Data
drwxr-xr-x 4 drmarkellis staff 136 May 17 14:09 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 19 drmarkellis staff 646 May 17 14:09 Logging
drwxr-xr-x 5 drmarkellis staff 170 May 17 14:09 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 4 drmarkellis staff 136 May 18 08:56 Users
MacBookPro:~ drmarkellis$
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Mark A. Ellis said:
My efforts to create a link to my flashdrive were attempts to implement the wiki page you referenced. I just got confused/lost on point "E".
List output shows point "D" has not been done: Logos4 folder is in ~/Library/"Application Support" that prevents point "E" creation of symbolic link.for Logos4 folder on flashdrive to ~/Library/"Application Support"/Logos4
Caution with symbolic link: if flashdrive is ejected or renamed, then the link is effectively broken so Logos will not work.
For performance, Blackmagic disk speed test can compare SSD in MacBook Pro and flashdrive. Personally would place Logos folder on fastest drive.
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