Latest iPad update is very nice but...
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Rev. Kelly, in order to test the new highlighting feature on the iOS app I opened up my favourite Bible on my iPad to a clean page, selected a random chunk of text to highlight and then had to wait circa 15 seconds for that highlight to appear on my iPad screen. My iPad was connected to my super-fast fibre optic broadband at the time. The delay was unacceptably long.
I'm not talking about waiting for a highlight on my Mac to appear on my iPad or vice-versa. Simply that a highlight made on my iPad as I am reading should appear on my iPad a lot quicker than it did.
That said, I have since performed this same test with another resource on my iPad (a short monograph) and it performed better.
Lastly, I did find the tone of your post to me quite abrasive to say the least.
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Andy,
How do you have your note/highlighting files set up? Where are your highlights being sent?
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That said, I have since performed this same test with another resource on my iPad (a short monograph) and it performed better.
Do you have a lot of highlighting in your Bible? Perhaps it slows down the more highlighting you have.
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I created a new Notes file from the iPad to use for highlighting and that has just sync'd to the desktop. Highlights in this file sync pretty quick, though applying the highlight is still very sluggish. I tried putting the iPad in airplane mode and still had the same delay applying highlights. Glad to get a clue on the sync issue though - it appears there is a problem syncing via some of my notes files.
One thing that seems peculiar, though, is when I highlight and select a particular document to use for highlighting, it is not remembering my document choice. I have to change to the new document every time I highlight.
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How do you have your note/highlighting files set up? Where are your highlights being sent?
Hi Chris,
I have just now run a test.
With reference specifically to my experience on the iPad1.
I am highlighting in the Driscoll book, Doctrine (300 pages long or so).
I am sending notes and highlights across three note files, two arranged topically (around key themes) and one specific to the book (Doctrine). In some cases I have two notes applied to the same passage (so that I can send the note into the topic and book specific note file). I am generally using the yellow highlighter pen (with a couple of exceptions). I am also adding note text.
I do have some custom palettes, but have not yet used them from the mobile.
I have killed all other background apps (using the shortcut menu).
I am taking care to make sure that Logos is only open on one device at a time (i.e. I have shut down L4 on the MBA). However, after highlighting I then went immediately to the MBA and started up L4. The highlights displayed immediately on the MBA.
The mobile app is responsive and performance has been consistently good throughout the day (save the slow start up which was marginally better this time).
Please let me know if you need any further information and wish me to try anything specific for comparison.
Andy
[Edit: all the note files used in this test are very small]
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Bob has just posted on another thread, here,
...some of the others are looking into the problem, which appears to be related to very large note files syncing...
It seems that it may be relevant that I am working with small note files. Perhaps this explains why the app seems more responsive at my end.I would be interested to know whether Rev. Todd is similarly working with small note files?
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That said, I have since performed this same test with another resource on my iPad (a short monograph) and it performed better.
Do you have a lot of highlighting in your Bible? Perhaps it slows down the more highlighting you have.
Not at all. I've only really highlighted a few parts of Colossians due to being a relatively new user. I don't have many notes either.
I just tried the test again in my ESV Bible on my iPad and it does seem to be highlighting quicker now than it did earlier.
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All my notes files are small. I very rarely use notes and only sometimes use highlighting.
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Mark, can someone provide me with an answer as to what is the maximum number of resources we should download, and still be able to run smoothly?
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I took the rather drastic step of deleting all my notes files in Logos. None of them were large, and I had perhaps a dozen different files, but I removed them all. Removed the app from iPhone and iPad and reloaded them. Made a highlight on the desktop and after a few minutes it showed up on the iPhone. Made a highlight on the iPhone and it applied with very little delay and soon showed up on the desktop. Repeated the test on the iPad with the same results: highlights appear within a second or two and sync quickly to the desktop. Sync from device to device is a little slower (probably because I can't manually tell it to sync).
Whatever the problem is, removing all my notes files straightened it out. Not really recommended for most users.
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I am glad that you got it Chris, but it kind of sounds as though the issue may at least for you, have been centered around the note style or format rather than the size of the files them selves... would you agree?
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I am glad that you got it Chris, but it kind of sounds as though the issue may at least for you, have been centered around the note style or format rather than the size of the files them selves... would you agree?
I'm really not sure. I've done nothing strange with notes or highlighting and typically use only the default yellow highlighter.
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