Wits end: Word study result brings Logos to its knees.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298898#Comment_298898

Dear Stuart: I'm in the boat within you, only difference is I have had Logos less time.

Cannot use it for serious study, just too unstable, really tired of them acting like there is something wrong with us or, our computers.

I just don't think the company cares, I really don't.

Years ago ,back in my Pc days, I invested in Biblesoft, they did the same thing, came out with an unstable, slow, quirky program and would not fix it. Just interested in selling modules.

Alas, I have Accordance which is incredibly fast, stable , they just don't have the Library Logos has. I may just chunk it in as well and go back to buying books for the things I cannot get in Program. I am losing more study time fiddling with the software than I gain from the software.

I too find this incredibly sad as Logos has the titles, has some good ideas, it's just too unstable, too slow.

If you have not called Tech support, you might try that, I am going to try it again this week though, I called a couple of weeks ago and even though I showed them bugs they had not seen ( according to the guy I got ) there has been no follow up, and no fixes.

Funny thing is, they have had no trouble getting my payments on time, I have been keeping my end of the agreement-smile.

If you have a year invested already, another call might be worthwhile.

Blessings,

Shawn Drewett

I must say that "hanging" is a common problem with me also. My pc processor probably cringes every time I start L4 because it runs incessantly, as does the cooling fan. I truly regret that I ever chose Logos as my sole bible study program, but it's too late now so I try to make the best of it.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298898#Comment_298898

If you have not called Tech support, you might try that, I am going to try it again this week though, I called a couple of weeks ago and even though I showed them bugs they had not seen ( according to the guy I got ) there has been no follow up, and no fixes.

I have not called Tech support, but I have logged numerous, carefully documented bugs via this forum. I've created videos demonstrating problems, uploaded logs, etc and generally provided free testing support. All to no avail - the vast majority of the bugs I've reported almost a year ago are still not fixed.

Jerry M

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298961#Comment_298961

Stuart, I do not mean to add to your frustration, this is just my opinion, and everyone has one, I would consider keeping Logos, selling the Mac and buying a really powerful Windows desktop. I understand Mac loyalty, but when it comes to Logos use this is my opinion. This may not be a financial option or one may feel the benefits of owning a Mac surpass any other thing. From what I have heard, the complaints of Logos use on Macs surpass the benefits of web security in my opinion. Of course many would be unwilling to learn another operating system, and that is understandable also.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298961#Comment_298961

Dear Stuart: Understand frustration and, share it.

Will still recommend calling Logos, allowing screenshare.

They were not able to fix/repair all my issues ( I showed them some they were not even aware of such as: Some buttons not working when using outboard screens) , however, they were able to solve some issues and at least get the thing somewhat usable.

That said, it still has problems and the more I use it in one session, the slower it gets, the more bogged down it gets.

It does have coding PROBLEMS , do not know if they will get it fixed.

If it is not better by the end of the time to get refund, Personally, I will send it back.

I would not buy a new car and keep it that would not drive properly, I would not keep a defective computer, I would not keep tires if they would not hold air.

Thus, I will not keep software the company cannot fix.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Again, I would call them, give them a chance to make it right.

The Forums "Are Not" Authorized Tech Support.

There may be Tech support people on here, but that does not constitute the Company looking directly at the Problem.

In your case, I would think ( as patient as you have been ), they would give you the highest level of tech support- level two or three, something like that.

There may be something they can do.

Hope I have not discouraged you more, just wanted to affirm that you are not alone in this frustration and others are pressing them to fix this as well.

Please let us know if they are able to help.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298922#Comment_298922

I truly regret that I ever chose Logos as my sole bible study program, but it's too late now so I try to make the best of it.

I had Bibleworks (on Windows) for many years and have now come to regret the day I sold it and switched to Logos. I truly don't know where the problems lie with Logos 4 technically but I have a very powerful computer on which every other application I have performs superbly. It's just Logos that constantly hangs. The irony of all of this is that Logos, being a Bible study tool, is the one program I want to use more than any -- due to a desire to study the Bible, not a desire to subject myself to daily irritation when it crashes / hangs, and yet it is the one tool that I can no longer bring myself to keep on using.

Is anyone at Logos listening...? Please pay attention... there are serious issues with Logos and it's inability to handle even modest search results, Bible word studies, etc is really sad -- it's sooo close and yet completely unusable for serious, sustained Bible study. A program with memory leaks, hangs, etc necessitating constant restarts of both Logos and my computer, etc do not constitute good workmanship.

Is there a desire within Logos to address these issues and produce a product that honors both the LORD and as the spirit in which the product was sold? I hope and pray the answer is 'yes'.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298969#Comment_298969

Hi Charles,

I hear you - I will take time out of my day today call tech support (here's hoping tech support is open after hours). Even if only to get closure and be able to say "I gave it my best shot". I don't hold out much hope they will be able to fix this, though. I suspect Logos 4 is fundamentally broken somewhere deep down in its .NET / Mono guts. But one call to tech support can't hurt much more than the last year of frustration has.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298969#Comment_298969

Jerry: You probably mean well, but your post is like a big slap in the face.

That would be like going to the tire store, buying new tires for my car, them not being able to balance them, my car shaking and the tire store telling me that I need to buy a different car to match the tires- that's just nuts.

Logos has advertised a Product, to be used on this platform, Logos has not deliver a product that runs correctly on this platform.

Logos needs to fix what wrong "On Their End", we do not need to change our end.

There was nothing dysfunctional about our money.

If the food is rotten at the restaurant , you are not going to allow them to say you need to change your bodily functionality so you can safely eat rotten food.

If Logos runs well on Windows, thats great, so glad for all you Windows users, thats wonderful!

But we are NOT Windows users, we bought this product for Mac, so it needs to function properly on the Mac.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298971#Comment_298971

I agree Stuart and Yes, Logos is the only program giving issues on mine as well.

Logos Tech support was Very Nice, They tried really hard, they did not feel rushed, did seem to care.

They were as stumped as we are on some issues, but over-all were helpful, kind, understood my frustrations and did all they could to help.

Did get me back to running and as long as I don't push it, can be patient for results, it works. I do restart it from time to time to keep it from crashing.

I also found just minimizing and then pulling it back up seems to help some, for some odd reason.

Hope you can get in touch.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298967#Comment_298967

It's ironic that Logos' announcement of a Mac version of Logos was what finally made me switch to Mac. There were various Mac applications that I've long wanted to be able to use, Scrivener and DEVONthink being two in particular. But more than a year of putting up with Logos 4's bugs, crashes, hangs and memory leaks is enough. Perhaps I need to buy Parallels 7 and run Logos for Windows on my old Windows XP installation.

Funamentally, though, Logos has failed to deliver on promises made to its customers. Yes, hindsight is a perfect science, and your suggestion is probably the right way to go (apart from spending more money and buying Accordance 9 to stay on Mac). But I am saddened (and a touch angered, to be truthful) about what the reality behind the promises has turned out to be.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298976#Comment_298976

Don't know how to private message on this and do not want to be rude to Logos, thus want to be careful what I say and how I say it.

I have the other Mac Bible Program and it does indeed run extremely well, extremely fast, very small footprint on processors and ram.

However, they do not have as large a library selection as Logos ( which seems to have every book ever written-smile ).

I got Logos for the resources that the other program does not have, I use both right now, but will have to see how things develop with Logos to know if I am staying or not.

My point is that you are not without options.

Emulation is an option, not sure if Logos runs as well on XP as Xp cannot see as much memory as Win 7.

It is certainly not unchristian or ungracious of us to ask for high standards of value from these companies.

At what they do, they should be seeking to deliver the very best, for we should never offer to God or His people second best, leftovers or anything like that, we should seek to offer the very best we are capable of.

Hopefully support can help and, to be fair, the tech support I received did indeed, in my opinion, try to give his very best.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298980#Comment_298980

Thanks for the encouragement, Charles. I downloaded the "other Mac" trial and it looks promising for my study needs.

I wonder if there is any way to ask Bob Pritchett to respond to these (and other) concerns and provide his take on where we are and what's being done to fix this?

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298980#Comment_298980

Don't know how to private message on this

You can click on a person's name in any one of their posts to get to their profile, and then click Add Comment at the bottom of the page. This will end up sending the person an email (if they've left the default of send notifications by email when someone posts a comment on your profile ON). It'll be open for public viewing for the short term, if anyone else does happen to go visit that person's profile, so don't say anything *extremely* confidential, but you can ask them to delete the comment once they've read it if you'd rather it not sit up there forever.

I wonder if there is any way to ask Bob Pritchett to respond to these (and other) concerns and provide his take on where we are and what's being done to fix this?

He often browses the forums and replies, or people internally will sometimes bring a thread to his attention if it needs a response from him. I have emailed him asking him to take a look at this thread.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298967#Comment_298967

Stuart, I do not mean to add to your frustration, this is just my opinion, and everyone has one, I would consider keeping Logos, selling the Mac and buying a really powerful Windows desktop. I understand Mac loyalty, but when it comes to Logos use this is my opinion. This may not be a financial option or one may feel the benefits of owning a Mac surpass any other thing. From what I have heard, the complaints of Logos use on Macs surpass the benefits of web security in my opinion. Of course many would be unwilling to learn another operating system, and that is understandable also.

Option: run Logos 4 Windows in a virtual machine on Mac. Wiki Logos 4 Mac => Need Logos 4 PC feature? includes virtualization and native boot options. Oracle's VirtualBox is free; only need a Windows license. Currently, Logos 4 Mac feature parity needs more improvement; see wiki Mac and PC User Interface Differences => Feature Parity For Logos 4, can use Method # 3 => Quick Installation onto multiple computers (since resource files are platform agnostic). If solely using Windows to run Logos 4, can ponder if want to install other programs in Windows (e.g. Anti-virus). Virtualization has clipboard integration option so can copy and paste.

I just did a word study on YHWH (right-clicked on LORD, selected YHWH - can't type Hebrew into this forum post... - and selected word study). Expanding the nodes in the resulting screen became slower and slower and scrolling up/down became sluggish in the extreme. Eventually I got a spinning pizza and after a minute or so had to Force Quit Logos. Same results each time I try to dig into verbs of which YWHW is the direct object.

Observation: for forum posting, can copy lemma in Logos 4 and paste: יהוה

Wonder about using a couple Bible Word Study Guides ? (collapsing sections not in use)

By the way, understand frustration, learned Bible Word Study (BWS) cannot have 2 guides open to same word יהוה (crashed Logos 4.5 Beta 3 once). Thankful can open different Guides for same word; had to wait for spinning wheels in Logos 4 to complete so could collapse sections. Created custom guide "BWS - Grammatical Relationships" for Word Study use that only has Grammatical Relationships section. Also experienced spinning beach ball when expanding or collapsing "Subject of" entry with 612 occurrences (after few seconds could scroll list; personally prefer moving scroll indicator, which is faster than wheel mouse).

Keep Smiling [:)]

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298987#Comment_298987

Thanks Rosie: Your very kind.

I don't think anyone is complaining , just to be complaining. Just frustrated is all.

I usually check the forums twice a day to find out if there are any updates. Reason for that is I cannot leave internet and auto-update on, in Logos, because if I do it crashes on opening and on re-opening it comes up with little box screen or long skinny one-smile.

So, just come here.

Probably posted too much, but share frustrations others have-smile-perhaps it's group therapy!

Blessings and Thanks

I just did a word study on YHWH (right-clicked on LORD, selected YHWH -
can't type Hebrew into this forum post...

יהוה [^o)] Hmm..

Could it be there are better ways of doing what you are trying? Maybe someone who is having success will share what they are doing different. I just added Mac to my Logos world and have found it close in performance to the Windows version. I still have my PC running both Libronix 3 and Logos 4..I do what I need to to get done what I need to.

Hope you get some helpful advice from experienced L4Mac users. I'm obviously not doing as heavy a study to see any problem.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298999#Comment_298999

Good Points S.T.: Your comments are quite valid , however, does this not provide further insight into the issues?

Why is it logos will run pretty good on one machine, not as well on another?

I know of people with newer andy more powerful Macs than my own who actually have the same and, in some cases, more issues than my own. ( mine are pretty common though).

It almost seems like there is some coding issue that make the program really susceptible to any little variation in machines, even ones that are of the same specs.

Fragile might me a good word to use here, something like: The Program is very fragile and thus easily broken by even slightly different Osx installs, preferences, other software, etc.

I think your comment is valuable to the conversation and worth a lot of thought.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299007#Comment_299007

Dear Stuart: I tried your test case from the other thread.

The first case was repeatable on my machine.

The second one ( search ) did not crash my machine, scrolling became unpredictable, runs on, etc, but did not crash.

Notes: my machine is only a macbook Alum. 5.1 4 gig memory.

Hoever, I see you are still on Beta copy, this could well be an "issue"

I am on 4.3 SR-5.

Don't know how you get off of Beta Channel but that may help you some.

That said, Bible Word study crashed for me as predicted using your steps.

Hope this helps.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299011#Comment_299011

Thanks Charles. You have been a great encouragement to me today.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/298991#Comment_298991

Also experienced spinning beach ball when expanding or collapsing "Subject of" entry with 612 occurrences

By way of comparison, Logos 4.5 Beta 3 on Windows 7 using Intel Core i7-2630QM 2.00 GHz (4 cores) takes few seconds to populate 612 occurrences, then can quickly expand and collapse. In contrast, iMac using Intel Core i7 870 2.93 GHz (4 cores) takes several seconds to expand or collapse (user interface optimization opportunity). Logos 4 Windows uses different colors for highlighting search results:

Why is it logos will run pretty good on one machine, not as well on another?

I know of people with newer andy more powerful Macs than my own who actually have the same and, in some cases, more issues than my own. ( mine are pretty common though).

It almost seems like there is some coding issue that make the program really susceptible to any little variation in machines, even ones that are of the same specs.

Fragile might me a good word to use here, something like: The Program is very fragile and thus easily broken by even slightly different Osx installs, preferences, other software, etc.

Same configuration can be frustrating for one person, while usable for another (depends on personal wait tolerance). Remember learning: "Never let a computer know you are in a hurry."

Have observed another Logos 4 Mac user clicking many times on menus: not appear quickly, so click again, which can have effect of flashing menu (one click to open, next to close, ...), which feeds frustration feelings. Likewise noted scowl on user's face when Logos 4 Mac menu did not appear quickly (along with clicking again, again, again). Upgrading hardware has reduced some frustrations since menus appear noticeably quicker.

Logos 4 is a resource intensive application that can be adversely affected by other software (e.g. cloud backup, time machine). From experience with Logos 4 Mac alpha pre-releases, personally learned to click and wait for various items. Thankful for many Logos 4 Mac improvements, looking forward to more. Later forum discussion follow-up is Logos User Voice suggestion => Improve Logos 4 Menu Responsiveness plus wiki Logos 4 Mac => What to Expect includes: "Three Logos 4 Mac menus do not follow historic Mac conventions:File, Guides, and Layouts - recommend quick click to display menu (may take seconds to display), then can right OR left click on menu items."

Keep Smiling [:)]

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299017#Comment_299017

" Never let computer know your in a hurry" thats Great!! Laughed so hard it hurt!

First real belly laugh in a while! I love it- Thanks Smiling.

Next: Yes, the menu issues are somewhat of a mess.

The scrolling issue in the second test was pretty strange- trying to describe it is more difficult.

Does not follow your scroll directives, it's like you can scroll, then watch a wheel run-on till it runs out of energy.

If you scroll down fast, then stop, it just keeps going, and going, and going ( sounds like a bunny thing)

If you scroll down, then up, it will go one way a while, then go the other a while, then kind of bounce back and forth.

Might make a great game for the App Store-smile

Just saying.

now, back to practicing keeping a proper expression so my computer does not know I am in a hurry. Now thats funny right there!

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299024#Comment_299024

Trying to replicate Bible Word Study Test in Dear Bob Pritchett, may I have a moment of your time? was unable to crash while scrolling. Personally letting Logos 4 Mac know in a hurry to quit (or close all) while Bible Word Study had clicks queued in grammatical relationship = crash. One set of clicks was puzzling, ESV Bible jumping locations. Also while clicking or hovering on triangle to expand or collapse direct object, noticed "Settings" flashing (strange).

Does not follow your scroll directives, it's like you can scroll, then watch a wheel run-on till it runs out of energy.

If you scroll down fast, then stop, it just keeps going, and going, and going ( sounds like a bunny thing)

If you scroll down, then up, it will go one way a while, then go the other a while, then kind of bounce back and forth.

Concur, using scroll wheel can be adventurous. Dragging scroll location indicator seems to work better (if not waiting for previous scroll wheel movement to go up or down).

Keep Smiling [:)]

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299031#Comment_299031

Stuart has found repeatable issues across multiple installs/set-ups, thus- a code problem.

Needs to be fixed, Amen?

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299041#Comment_299041

Stuart has found repeatable issues across multiple installs/set-ups, thus- a code problem.

Needs to be fixed, Amen?

Truly, also wiki Mac and PC User Interface Differences => Feature Parity – Mac needs many improvements. Thankful for many Logos 4 Mac improvements over past couple years; looking forward to awesome future releases (e.g. highlighting and notes replication across platforms, including mobile).

Keep Smiling [:)]

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299031#Comment_299031

Trying to replicate Bible Word Study Test in Dear Bob Pritchett, may I have a moment of your time? was unable to crash while scrolling.

KS4J - It crashed for me. [:(]

Paul N

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299056#Comment_299056

Trying to replicate Bible Word Study Test in Dear Bob Pritchett, may I have a moment of your time? was unable to crash while scrolling.

KS4J - It crashed for me.

ditto (on the first test. I executed step 9 and suddenly Logos closed with a Mac crash window replacing it)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299007#Comment_299007

I know of people with newer andy more powerful Macs than my own who actually have the same and, in some cases, more issues than my own. ( mine are pretty common though).

Based on forum posts I would say Macs seem to have more hiccups with Logos than PCs. But you are right, the actual hardware is not necessarily the issue. I run Logos satisfactorily on older hardware (PC & Mac.) My benchmarks are humble and specs are unimpressive (2 GB Ram on the iMac.) I have no complaints after Logos has completed booting (approx. 25 seconds.) I do have a horribly long wait on Autocad booting up.

I imagine there are many hidden factors for why the large discrepancy is evident. I know I had problems (edit: running in Windows.) with .Net Framework & IE9 causing speed issues in L4 Logos has some brilliant minds in the programming department. They fix these things on a case by case basis because the underlying issues are frequently different.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299120#Comment_299120

Dear ST: Do me a favor if you have time. Look on the three to Bob Pritchett ( spelling? ) and see the test case that was presented.

Duplicate test on Mac, see if you get crash or freeze.

The fact this is duplicatable across different machines and, does not duplicate on others may indicate this has to do with different libraries, indexing issues etc. Which goes to code stability.

The thing is, Programs are not supposed to be this fragile.

The more Honest info we can gather, the better we can help and the faster help can be implemented .

This is the one area I do not understand about the Logos community, there is too much of: "oh, it must be your machine" instead of, what are you doing, let me see if I can get it to fail in the same way, now, we can get this info to Logos.

If something fails on some machines and not others, this is good info for the programmers to have, in some ways, better info that a crash that happens to everyone, for those issues are "usually" ( not always ) easier to find and solve.

These that are "spread out" over different configs, are harder to diagnose, but may well lead to finding bottlenecks in speed, function etc.

If Logos could run well on a bottom end machine and across a lot of configurations, it would be fast on regular hardware and fly on the better hardware.

If we can help narrow the areas to look in by eliminating some other areas, the whole Logos community benefits, Windows as well as Mac.

We all benefit when we can help, in any small way, to provide solutions, data for troubleshooting etc.

So Please, if you can spare the time, use the steps mentioned ( exactly, for both tests ) and see what your results are.

No matter the outcome on your machine, the results are important.

Mine crashed on the first test, not the second.

I run Logos with Internet turned off.

Latest stable version.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299124#Comment_299124

Dear ST: Do me a favor if you have time.

Will do. (The Mac has not been fired up today. I've been bed-ridden and stuck with my Windows netbook.)

I only have the stable versions of Logos on my machines but I will do the test anyway. I'm curious and certainly want to help.

And sorry for not reading the threads closer before posting the beta diagnosis so quickly.

I'll get back to you.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299126#Comment_299126

Sorry to hear you are sick, hope it's something simple-prayers ascending!

Thanks for testing that when you get a chance, we all appreciate it.

Yes, several using SR5 can recreate the crash.

Some have both issues listed, some just the first ( like myself ).

The Lord Bless you with healing.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299129#Comment_299129

Thanks for testing that when you get a chance, we all appreciate it.

I am sad to report I duplicate the crash in SR5 on my machine. Specs:

iMac 20" (late 2006)
Intel Core 2 Duo running at 2.16Ghz
2G RAM
1TB formatted 1 GUID partition
SuperDrive
Silcone Graphics Japanese USB keyboard
Apple one-button USB mouse

Software running at the time:

Mac OS X 10.7.1 LION
Logos Bible Software 4.3 SR-5 (4.30.0.1603)
Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 Version 14.0.0 (100825)
Apple Pages '09 Version 4.1 (923)
Apple Text Edit Version 1.7 (288)
Apple Finder 10.7

Sorry to hear you are sick, hope it's something simple-prayers ascending!

Thank you for your prayers. I have chronic pain from diabetic neuropathy. On good days I put on my prosthetic leg and forget I have a "disability." On in-between days I use canes and walkers to get around. On bad days I use the wheelchair or stay in bed. (Today was a bad day. [:'(] )

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299141#Comment_299141

Dear St: Thank you so much for the effort given to check this out, you input is valuable.

I am sure "smiling" is monitoring and will see that the input gets kicked upstream. ( he is tireless you know, only sleeps on leap year-smile to smiling)

So sorry to hear of your physical situation, yet, encouraged at the same time as , you do not seem to let it dictate your life to you, but work with it.

Thank you for that example, Christ Jesus our Lord appreciates all sufferings, is more than familiar as you know. May The Lord Himself richly bless you .

Thanks again, so much. On a bad day, when not feeling like it, you got up to help.

The Lord Bless you, Keep you and, make His face to shine upon you.

May your tomorrow be Blessed and Peaceful.

Grace and Peace, Grace and Peace,

CRM+

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299145#Comment_299145

( he is tireless you know, only sleeps on leap year-smile to smiling)

One belly laugh deserves another.

Trying to replicate Bible Word Study Test in Dear Bob Pritchett, may I have a moment of your time? was unable to crash while scrolling.

KS4J - It crashed for me.

ditto (on the first test. I executed step 9 and suddenly Logos closed with a Mac crash window replacing it)

Curious about Logos 4 Mac and Mac OS X versions ? Personally used Logos 4.5 Beta 3 on 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

Hypothesis: Logos 4 Mac on OS X Lion bit more crash prone than Snow Leopard.

Keep Smiling [:)]

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299153#Comment_299153

Hypothesis: Logos 4 Mac on OS X Lion bit more crash prone than Snow Leopard.

Mac OS X Lion is starting to show crashes with a lot of mainstream applications. Autodesk Maya will not run under Lion but will run in Snow Leopard. My wife had to trade her Mac version for the Windows version. Their customer service said several companies are having issues with Lion.

Could it be an Intel chipset issue? I'm a newbie to the latest Mac hardware. although it is remarkably like the Windows chip-sets I am familiar with. [:P] Have I said yet, I just love the iMac design?

Josh

I just did a word study on YHWH (right-clicked on LORD, selected YHWH -
can't type Hebrew into this forum post... - and selected word study).
Expanding the nodes in the resulting screen became slower and slower and
scrolling up/down became sluggish in the extreme. Eventually I got a spinning pizza and after a minute or so had to Force Quit Logos. Same results each time I try to dig into verbs of which YWHW is the direct object.

I wanted to see if I could replicate your issue with on my iMac. Specs: 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR3, OSX Snow Leopard.

I opened Logo fresh and opened my ESV to Genesis 2:4. I right-clicked on LORD and ran a full Bible Word Study. This took about 25-30 seconds to complete.

I looked for the node with the largest amount of information to view (Grammatical Relationships, Subject of..., "to say") which had 612 occurrences. The first time I expanded the node it took about 15 seconds to load.

I was able to scroll up and down with no problems. I then closed it. This took about 4 seconds. I then expanded it again. I repeated this about 6 times. It took on average about 3 seconds to open and close. The only time I got a hang up (or spinning beach ball of death) was when I attempted to scroll or click BEFORE the list was fully expanded or closed - and it only lasted for a few seconds. No crashes.

With other nodes, I had no problems either. The only one that seemed to exhibit some system stress was the one with 612 occurrences.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299153#Comment_299153

Curious about Logos 4 Mac and Mac OS X versions ? Personally used Logos 4.5 Beta 3 on 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

Hypothesis: Logos 4 Mac on OS X Lion bit more crash prone than Snow Leopard.

I am running 4.3 SR5 on 10.7.2 (Lion). My MacBook Pro is a late 2010 model (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 8 GB Ram)

Paul N

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299189#Comment_299189

[EDIT]

I just ran this on my MBP with the same specs as Alabama, however I have not updated to Lion and am still operating in Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with the same crash result.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299205#Comment_299205

Thanks Paul: Good info.

So this is not Lion specific.

One really interesting post from the other thread is that this "may be" trying to "start" the graphics engine/card.

If so, this would be strange behavior for a query that would not be considered graphics intensive and which Logos does not "seem" to usually do.

This query does not seem to crash the Windows version, but does cause those installs to work seemingly hard.

Do not know if this is a tagging conflict of what.

Am going to try same query with different resource (Nasb) and see if same results.

Thanks for your help, really good info.

LimJK

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/299224#Comment_299224

One really interesting post from the other thread is that this "may be" trying to "start" the graphics engine/card.

If so, this would be strange behavior for a query that would not be considered graphics intensive and which Logos does not "seem" to usually do.

Charles,

I thought I reply here, as the subject matter is Off Topic in the other thread.

What I observed (with both Power & Battery only mode):

a) as long as you open any of the smaller Resources: such as monograph, fragments, Biblical People,Places,Things, etc. The graphics card stays in "integrated" graphics mode

b) However, if you open any of the sizable Logos Resources: such as Bible, Harmony, Encyclopedia, Commentaries, etc. (I tried about 20 Resources) the graphics card switches from "integrated" to "discrete". Once in this state, closing any of such resources does not trigger a switch back from "discrete" to "integrated". The only way is to quit Logos to cause the graphics to switch back to "integrated" mode

It may be a OS X Lion's decision; like you mentioned earlier, it may have nothing to do with Logos 4 for Mac - only the Logos programmers will know if they switch the graphics mode when loading certain types of Resources.

As far as the user is concern, more heat is generated, battery usage time shorten - I prefer it to stay in the "integrated mode when I am on battery :-)

Finally, with the gfsCardStatus v2.1, I forced the system to use only "Integrated" graphics mode. I tried the same sequence of test and it crashed on Step #9. So it is fair to say that the crash is not due to the graphics card mode.