Logos Carbonite Recovery after computer loss

Dr. Michael G Loftis

Recently lost a computer on a plane that didn't come back.  Fortunately I had carbonite installed so I recovered all my files.  However, I have been unable to reinstall Logos because it is in the wrong place.  Does anyone have a simple solution.  Is there a recovery map someplace that will allow me to relocate my files into the correct directory?  I have Windows 8 on the new laptop.  Logos support staff simply encouraged me to come here and ask.  Can anyone help? 

--Michael

Graham Criddle

Hi Michael - and welcome to the forums

Dr. Michael G Loftis said:

However, I have been unable to reinstall Logos because it is in the wrong place.

Not exactly sure what you mean by it being "in the wrong place" but does method 2 at https://wiki.logos.com/Quick_Installation_onto_multiple_computers help you at all?

Graham

Dr. Michael G Loftis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/639409#Comment_639409

Thanks Graham for your suggestion.  I am trying to read through a lot of this.  It looks a bit complicated and I am trying to get to a church meeting in a few minutes.  I will have to punt and come back to it later tonight.

Logos Support told me to download and install Logos5 and delete my old files.  I'm afraid that they assume that everything I owned was in my logos online library.

I should mention that I had Logos4 Platinum version with a number of additional installs that were Logos compatible but not Logos sourced.  I was hoping I could simply move my library into a new location so that the Logos5 engine could read them and function normally.  Apparently that is exactly what one of the methods recommends but I will have to try it later.

I do thank you.  I will let you know if this works.  --Michael

Mark Barnes

Dr. Michael G Loftis said:

However, I have been unable to reinstall Logos because it is in the wrong place.

If you use Carbonite to restore all your files, but you don't restore your registry, then it's going to put your files in the 'wrong place'. It may put them in a Logos4 folder, whilst your new installation expects a Logso5 folder; and it will certainly use a different randomized directory name.

If I've understood you correctly, you have have a working installation of Logos (with none of your resources), and a non-working installation (with all your resources). You need to get your resources from your non-working installation to your working installation.

The easiest way to do this is to SCAN your old resources folder into the new installation. It will take a while, and it will need to index afterwards. Once it's done, you can delete your old Logos folder.

For what it's worth, Logos don't recommend restoring Logos from a partial backup. (By a partial backup I mean backing up some, not all of the files/registry settings.)