Logos 9 Limitations?

Jeff Terrell
Jeff Terrell Member Posts: 269 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I have a layout for a school project that is pretty massive. The main window has nearly 50 resources...then I have four other windows that have 10-15 resources (each grouped by various aspects of my project: OT Commentaries, NT Commentaries, Theology, Interpretation). I use them for various sections of my project. Two questions:

1) Is there a better way to set up this layout so I can use the groups and turn quickly between them without having to start from scratch with each one of them?

2) Is there a limitation in Logos for opened resources or some other limitation that could effect the reason for my post? 

ISSUE: One of my windows cannot be minimized (I click the minimize button and it just sits there) and then pops to the front no matter what other window I am using.

Thank you!

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  • Jeff Terrell
    Jeff Terrell Member Posts: 269 ✭✭

    Additional Data Point:

    I now cannot access any resources in the window at all. I can see them but I can't access anything. The video shows both the way the window randomly pops to the front (window in the middle of the screen) and then how I can't access any of the resources in the window.

    Screen Video

  • Jeff Terrell
    Jeff Terrell Member Posts: 269 ✭✭

    Oddly, I think I fixed it...

    I selected "Window" at the top of the desktop to see all the open windows. I selected the one that was "dead" and it pulled it up from being minimized (which clearly it was not minimized as per the video!). When it did, I could access all the resources. Interesting...

  • Jeff Terrell
    Jeff Terrell Member Posts: 269 ✭✭

    Well, after I saved the layout, the problem persists. My workaround is the "Window" process, but then the window just freezes after a bit.

  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,489

    Is there a limitation in Logos for opened resources

    Yes. I have no idea what the limit is, and it would depend upon your computer specs. Open resources consume resources. You don’t have an unlimited amount of memory or processing power. 50 resources does sound quite excessive. 

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 3,087

    50 resources does sound quite excessive. 

    Libby was surprised ... even she can comfortably handle 50 (though a bit of a squeeze, and if you remember, re-sizing the window meant starting all over ... that may have been her undoing, besides a very slow search).

    But starting with Logos4 thru Logos7, I have a 150 resource layout (4 windows), plus a text-compare with another 50 or so. Running on a 10 year PC w/SSD, and Windows7.  Solid as a rock ... runs without a re-start for months. Whoever did the architecture planning in 2007 or 2008 really was good.

    Can't speak to the strange window above, but if it were mine, the cause would be either a mis-behaving OL resource, or one refreshing online.

  • Jeff Terrell
    Jeff Terrell Member Posts: 269 ✭✭

    This is interesting. I wonder if a layout can be corrupted. The symptoms persist. I am thinking about starting all over...

  • Jeff Terrell
    Jeff Terrell Member Posts: 269 ✭✭

    Realized I never updated this thread...

    I ended up deleting the window that kept popping up and recreating the window with those resources. It is working "better" than previous but still not how I would expect. That window, when recently accessed, continues to pop up no matter what other window I access. I can navigate away from it and then it doesn't pop up as much. I can get by with how it is functioning now. Will be curious to see if future builds will resolve this. Thanks for your help.

  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,489

    I wonder if a layout can be corrupted

    Absolutely it can. Some of the trouble shooting steps include loading to a blank layout and rebuilding the layout. 

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  • SineNomine
    SineNomine Member Posts: 7,043

    I ended up deleting the window that kept popping up and recreating the window with those resources.

    May I ask what the resources are? It might matter somehow.

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  • Veli Voipio
    Veli Voipio MVP Posts: 2,016

    But starting with Logos4 thru Logos7, I have a 150 resource layout (4 windows), plus a text-compare with another 50 or so. Running on a 10 year PC w/SSD, and Windows7.

    You are lucky, I have Windows 81. and only 8 years old computer, and run L8. My customized passage study layout has 32 resources but normally the number grows along with my (dubious) exegesis. The number of resources does not seem to be a problem. The link sets also seem to work the way Logos has specified them (although my requirement specification would have been different).

    Well, I also have a laptop with W10and L9 and it seems to work fine with the 32+ resources although it has much less RAM memory.

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