Moving the bulk of Logos Program to different drive

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You can't move the program, you have to reinstall it and do a custom installation on your drive. Fortunately there's some fast(er) ways to do so.

If you're considering moving Logos to a different drive, I would suggest getting an SSD drive to install and moving Logos to that. I haven't done it yet, but from what I've seen of people's benchmarks who have SSD drives, they are much faster than regular HDs and the performance improvement with Logos is remarkable.

2011/01/16

Hi,

I read the following in this thread:

DominicM said:

Its unsupported by Logos, but you can move your books to D and keep programs on C: you have to "tweak"  the system though

Dave Hooton said:

Please note that Dominic's suggestion will work only in Vista/Windows 7

Does anyone know if this is possible on an XP Pro SP3 system?  I've been looking for a way to do this because my "C:" drive is small and I have a 1TB external USB drive that I would like to move my Resources to.  I realize that it may be slower being a USB drive, but I can't afford the "real estate" of the resources on my "C" drive and I have lots of room (for now [;)] [:D] ) on my external drive.

Thanks, David

2011/01/16

Hi Dave,

Thank you so much for your reply.  I knew I could count on you!!! [;)]

My "C" drive is partitioned into a System drive ("C" = NTFS) and a "Recovery" drive ("D" - FAT32), and my Logos 4 Resources are on my "C" (NTFS) drive.  My external 1TB drive is also NTFS - so it looks like I'm good to go as soon as I get "Junction.exe".

THANKS!

David

Those unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the command prompt may wish to try this little utility, which presents you with a convenient graphical user interface for creating junction links. Use at own risk according to directions. [:D]

David Nardone said:

The link brings you to "Quick Installation onto Multiple Computers" under the Wiki -> FAQs.  The thing that I don't understand about the suggested procedures in Method 1 and Method 2 is that if you are to copy:  ...\Logos4\Data this directory to the new computer - you are in fact, copying over ALL of your resources anyway!?  Because the Resources are located at:  ...\Logos4\Data\(Random)\ResourceManager\Resources

I thought the point was to have the program on the system disk and have the Resources located elsewhere - at least, that is what I hope to accomplish because of the small amount of disk space that I have on my system drive.

UNLESS - you are NOT supposed to copy all of the subdirectories in \Logos4\Data as well - is that the case?

I just got my "new" computer so I am in the midst of trying to get this option to work, and I already have my Resources copied to my external drive.

Yes, that method calls for all of the sub-folders to be copied.

The point of the quick installation was not for separating the program from its files, just to save download time and sometimes indexing (depending on method selected). The regular Logos 4 installation process puts everything in one folder. I don't see any real benefit from trying to separate things out, it's not like the exe takes up that much space.

David Nardone said:

I apologize for being dense - but - if this method is to actually "pick up" Logos 4 and move it to an external drive for example and run Logos 4 from there - then what will happen to future updated Resources?  Won't they still go to the system drive?  Unless that is the reason for making the "junction" so that Logos 4 "thinks" that the program and resources are still located on the system drive under the specific User's name?  [Such as:  C:\Documents and Settings\David\Local Settings\Application Data\Logos4\Data\(Random)\ResourceManager\Resources]

Also, should I maintain the same directory structure (as above) on my external drive?

David, I think what is generating your confusion is that there are two different options being discussed here.

1. Uninstalling Logos from the System drive and using the Quick Installation guide on the wiki to reinstall it on another drive, saving on downloads.
2. Creating a junction point that fools Windows into thinking files are one place when they actually are another.

1 seems to be safer to me, I've used it with success. I've never tried #2 so I can't report on how well it works.

Ok, if your goal is to use an external drive you should probably use a junction point (#2). However, this will slow Logos down as an internal SATA connection is much faster than USB. I say this so you can keep as much of the Logos databases on the system drive as you can.

If you use the Quick Installation method (#1), yes, this picks up the whole files structure and puts it on another drive, any future updates will go there. If you install on your external drive there is no need to replicate the Documents and Settings\David\Local Settings\Application Data\ hierarchy. you can just place it in whatever folder you want when you run the installer.

Bluntly, if you are looking for saving space it's probably time to buy a bigger, faster internal hard drive. It will improve your performance (both Windows and Logos); external hard drives are best for back up and storing files you won't use very frequently, two categories I suspect that Logos doesn't fit into for you.

So is there a performance advantage to having the program on C: drive and the Resourcces all on a second physical drive? Not a different partition on the same drive mind you but a completely different drive?

Just asking.

Kevin Becker said:

The Logos executable is probably loaded into memory when you launch the program so having it on a different drive wouldn't give you a performance boost.

That's what I figured Kevin but I wanted to double check other thoughts. Thank you for the response. [:)]

Blessings,

Bob

I have tried DominicM's method posted 2010-10-22 above with Logos 6.4 in Win 8.1 on an Asus Transformer and put my Resources on a removable SD Card but Logos crashes on startup. Windows Explorer reads the junction correctly. Any suggestions?