Personal Books
Hello all.
Please some help. I bought a new computer and installed my version 5. After that I copied the Folder resources to my new computer. Everything worked fine except that it doesn't recognise my personal books. They are not in the list. What do I miss?
Greetings and thanks for helping.
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Wijnand said:
Please some help. I bought a new computer and installed my version 5
Is this running on Windows or Mac?
Wijnand said:After that I copied the Folder resources to my new computer
What do you mean by "Folder resource"?
Wijnand said:it doesn't recognise my personal books. They are not in the list.
Do you mean you don't see them in the Personal Book tool, you don't see them in the Logos library or both?
Have you tried the "scan" command against the folder containing the Personal Books?
See http://wiki.logos.com/Quick_Installation_onto_multiple_computers and http://community.logos.com/forums/t/50908.aspx for some context on this.
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Hi Wijnand, I hope you still have your old computer with your personal book .docx files on it, or have them backed up somewhere. Logos does not yet sync personal books to the cloud. So you will need to rebuild the books from the .docx files. Copy them onto your new computer into whatever folder you want to keep them in (same folder as you had them on your old computer, presumably). The metadata should still be there, so if you open your Personal Books tool you will see the titles of all the books, and they will also probably even know what .docx file was associated with that book. (If for some reason, it has lost that info, you'll have to click Add File and find the file on your computer that this book should be build from.) Then just click the Build Book button for each of them, and after they're all built you should be good to go.
Hopefully the feature of syncing all the compiled personal book files will be coming along soon, so we won't need to do this anymore when we upgrade to a new computer. It's still a good idea to back up your source files (.docx) though, in case you ever want to change/edit a PB and rebuild it.
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Hello Graham and Rosie.
Thanks for your answers. When I opened the personal books tab in Tools he "saw" all the books but not the content. I don't have the most docx-files anymore so I have to make them again. But now I know I have to do it again instead of thinking I did something wrong. I hope Logos will find some solution for this in the future. It's a lot of work to compile them again. Thanks for your time all of you.
Greetings in Christ our wonderful Lord. We will meet some day face to face.
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Wijnand said:
Hello Graham and Rosie.
Thanks for your answers. When I opened the personal books tab in Tools he "saw" all the books but not the content. I don't have the most docx-files anymore so I have to make them again.
Wijnand,
you should definitely try the scan command, as Graham suggested, since the compiled PBBs are part of your L5 installation as Logos resources are and shouldn't need a recompile.
Have joy in the Lord!
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Welcome! [:)]
You should consider using a cloud based service to store your .docx files. If you ever need to recompile them, you will have access. Here is a tutorial:
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Hello.
I will try. But how do I give the scan-command. When I type scan in the command window it says "search for scan" and it find all the words with scan. But this is not what you mean. Then I gave this command "Scan E:\Logos5\Data\0uvvdeiq.44v\ResourceManager\Resources" but nothing happens.
Greetings
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Hello.
I think I was too quick. It worked. I have all my personal books "back?" without recompiling. Thanks for all your comments.
Greetings.
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Wijnand said:
I gave this command "Scan E:\Logos5\Data\0uvvdeiq.44v\ResourceManager\Resources" but nothing happens.
You have to restart Logos after issuing this command, but I'm guessing you've already discovered that because you eventually got your personal books back.
Wijnand said:I think I was too quick. It worked. I have all my personal books "back?" without recompiling. Thanks for all your comments.
That's great to hear!
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Wijnand said:
Hello.
I think I was too quick. It worked. I have all my personal books "back?" without recompiling. Thanks for all your comments.
Greetings.
Excellent news!
Enjoy, Graham [:)]
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Wijnand said:
I hope Logos will find some solution for this in the future.
This has been discussed over and over again. One of the problems is space on Logos servers. For their books they only need to store one copy. For ours they need to save every one for every user forever. The other problem may be copyright. It changes from one nation to the next. In the US there is a 'fair use' clause where if it is only for your own use you can change the format. But what if that file, even encrypted and not readable, is stored on someone else's site? The sites that back up all of your files in the cloud are to some extent protected as they have no clue what is in your files so that only you are responsible. Logos has some hint that some of our files are under copyright.
And under 'fair use' the copyright holder may require that you produce the original on demand to show that you do have legal access to the file.
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