"This Resource is Not Currently Available On This Device" - Logos Bible Software 8.6 8.6.0.0052 on m

I have been having so many problems since 8 and this wiki now explains why.  in my library window on the filter pane it says i have 740 books on "this device" and 4434 books "not on this device.  My miseries were accentuated by a PC failure and then a reinstall on a new PC.  How do I tell logos to download all those books at one time so I don't have to download them 1x1?  thanks in advance.  

Help!  I just purchased Marcus Jastrow's Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature, and when I search for it in my library, and then click on it, I'm given the option to "Download" it, but the download button doesn't work.  I read in replies up above that the Internet preferences are important in Logos, so mine are,

"Use Internet": YES

"Automatically Start Downloads": NO

"Click to Download Available Downloads (263MB)" ***I DON'T WANT THESE UPDATES--ONLY THE 2 MODULES I JUST PURCHASED***

"Download New Resources": YES (but I also tried NO, and that still didn't let me manually download the modules)

So why in the world can't I download this resource.  I keep clicking the "Download" button 100 times and nothing happens--no message, no error, nothing.  This is beyond frustrating.  (I'm new to Logos, but I've wasted a whole hour trying to get 2 resources I just purchased downloaded!!!)

Please, DON"T tell me that I just purchased some kind of "Cloud-only" resource that I can't save on my own computer.  I don't need a glorified Kindle reader.  I want resources on MY computer.  What won't these 2 modules download?

Thanks for your help.

MJ, thank you for your response.

"What time frame have you set for downloads?"

I had set none, as a brand new user, and someone who *doesn't* like any software downloading updates of any kind without my permission.  As noted above already, I had "Automatically Start Downloads" set to NO, so there was no option showing to set a time range.  But after reading your post, I went and turned it to YES, and two things happened as a result: 1) all the hundreds of downloads / updates that I didn't want came pouring into my system; 2) I finally had my 2 purchased resources automatically download.

Result: I'm not happy.  (Yes, I'll live just fine with this initial round of downloads, but don't tell me that I *have* to download everything Logos wants me to, just in order to get what I actually bought and paid for).  Again I ask, why, with the settings I specified up above, did the "Download" button not work on my two purchased modules?

"How long are you waiting for the download to start? If you keep pushing buttons without giving time for the download to start you may be canceling one command by initiating another."

I was a former technical support agent.  Thank you for your concern, but I wasn't having a contest to see how fast I could repeatedly press the "Download" button.  I understand these things.  The option to download simply didn't work.  I closed Logos, reopened it, changed "Internet" settings in the "Program Settings," and tried everything a competent computer use would naturally do.  The option to download simply didn't work.  The problem that I would submit as feedback (while still wanting to know *why* it didn't work) is that Logos should provide a notification or error message.  But instead, nothing, nada, zilch happened.  That is a problem.

Again, after reading your post, and then going into the "Program Settings," I couldn't find any "time range" set for downloads (again, because I don't like the idea of an app on my computer constantly connecting to the internet), and that is when I tried turning "Automatically Start Downloads" to YES, and then my modules (along with everything else I don't want) got downloaded.

Please, if you (or someone else) can, explain why I couldn't just download my desired resources without the hundred other updates.  Thank you.

TYA said:

... someone who *doesn't* like any software downloading updates of any kind without my permission.  As noted above already, I had "Automatically Start Downloads" set to NO, so there was no option showing to set a time range.  But after reading your post, I went and turned it to YES, and two things happened as a result: 1) all the hundreds of downloads / updates that I didn't want came pouring into my system; 2) I finally had my 2 purchased resources automatically download.

We just passed our tenth anniversary of this issue! You do NOT get to buy a book without Logos-pain (along with ignoring your ownership of your computer ... but you ARE a Christian, so they can do that). Smiling.

I finally got enough books, and pulled my Logos off the net. Life is quiet, easy-going, and I read any new purchases on the mobile. No constant this and that.

And Jastrow is good. They also have Strack/Billerbeck (in german).

I want to thank you *all* for your kind and helpful replies, although I must admit that (certainly because of my own newness, and ignorance with Logos), I didn't understand them all.  So far, (and correct me if I missed something in your replies), there *isn't* a way to download *only* the 2 books I just purchased, *without* getting everything else Logos wants me to download.  Is this correct???

Someone replied up above, "This is the 10th anniversary of this, Logos-pain".  What exactly does that mean?  What are you talking about?  Is this your way of saying that I can't just download the 2 books I purchased--again, *without* the other downloads?

While I am new to Logos, I am a BibleWorks, Accordance, and e-Sword user.  In *all* of these other programs, I can easily download the resources I purchase.  I am not forced to download *anything* that I don't want.  Thus, you can understand my expectation that Logos would allow me to simply download the 2 resources I just purchased.

Hopefully, you can understand my bewilderment and frustration when I clicked the "Download" button, and nothing happened.  Again, I wasn't even given a message or notification or error explaining anything.  It was a total dead-end.

So, would someone kindly confirm for me.  I am using Logos 8 (fully downloaded and installed) on a Windows 7 PC: can I, or can't I download *only* the resources I pay for in Logos, without downloading other things that Logos says are "ready to be downloaded"?

Thank you.

Thanks all, and Dave, and JT, your answers were nicely to the point.  That answers it for me.  Thanks again.  Pardon my frustration.  As I noted, I use 4 other Bible software's, and so I found this situation with Logos less than ideal.

Thanks!

JT (alabama24) said:

TYA said:

there *isn't* a way to download *only* the 2 books I just purchased, *without* getting everything else Logos wants me to download.  Is this correct???

Correct. 

Could you elaborate on this? Given that downloading any individual purchased resource is now optional, why must he download all of the other items? I understand that if they are updates to existing downloaded resources, they would need to be downloaded - that would be implicit for any downloaded resources before the new functionality was released.

But if they were all new resources, could he not mark them all as "do not download" (or whatever the verbiage is) and they get removed from what Logos thinks it needs to download?

Thanks,

Donnie