Sugg: Progress bar on "Preparing Your Library"

I'm installing on a netbook (1.6 GHz Atom processor, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD) so I expect installation to take a while, and after 1.5 hrs of watching the screen say "Preparing your library" with no indication that anything's happening, I am thinking that it might be helpful to show some sort of feedback on this screen to ensure the installer that something is happening.

I can check task manager and see that Logos4Indexer.exe is cranking along, but apart from this I'd be tempted to question if it had hung.

So a progress bar perhaps showing which resources were being indexed would be encouraging to me as an installer.

Finally, I was warned that it would take a while so I wasn't planning on doing anything, but it may be good to give users an option here to pause or postpone this process in case they needed to shut down, restart, or move their computer due to other things going on in their lives.

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Phil Gons (Logos)

it may be good to give users an option here to pause or postpone this process in case they needed to shut down, restart, or move their computer due to other things going on in their lives.

Right click on the Logos icon in the System Tray and select "Pause indexing for 4 hours." This isn't perfect (you may want to pause indexing for only 30 mins.), but it does give you some control over the indexing process.

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/6827#Comment_6827

Got it once indexing begins. I was speaking of the time period before it even gets to indexing while it is "Preparing Your Library" prior to the program launching. This period of time appeared to me as I was installing it, that it was a portion of the install process, and therefore I as a first-time Logos 4 user felt like my computer was held up in a 2-hour-long install process.

Does that make sense?

Mitch Davis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/6829#Comment_6829

Does that make sense?

Yes, it makes sense.... especially if this is what is to be expected by end users in the final product. Personally, I hope that the upgrade process does not take 10 hours or longer. If so, MANY will have a frustrating experience.

George Allakhverdyan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/6836#Comment_6836

I think in the end it's totally worth it because after indexing ALL of your resources, the searches are almost instantaneous. One user recalled indexing his 6,000 resources over night and then his searches returned in less than one second, claiming it would return 18 million results for common terms like 'Jesus', now that is fast!

Alex Scott

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/6827#Comment_6827

...and you don't have to wait the full 4 hours. Clicking the icon when paused gives you the option to restart whenever you want.

Bob Pritchett

We're working on optimizing the indexing process.

The system will use whatever index is there while it builds a new one, though, so we're planning to ship an index for your primary collection (Scholar's / Silver / Gold / etc.) so you can get going right out of the box, while a new index customized to your unique content is built in the background.