Tip: How to hide up to 10 resources at once

Very clever Mark!

It worked in my 4.3Sr3.

I tried this method, but it appeared to be inconsistent.  Now I know why. 
When I tested it, I only tested a few.  Then I deleted all those between files I wanted to keep, but could not figure out why it sometimes worked and sometimes did not.

Now that I am done, I get to learn the difference.  

I am glad to know this for the future. 

Thank you

Buck

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Thanks, Mark. This is brilliant! I have gotten behind on tagging new resources and I trace it to the arrival of Perseus in my library. It just overwhelmed me so much I got stuck and haven't done any tagging at all since then.

I see it's possible to drag even more than 10 tabs at a time to the Hidden Resources folder if there's an easy way to get them all open in a floating window at once. I wonder why there's that artificial limit of opening only 10 at a time?

BTW, I figured out a faster way to count to 10 in making my selection in the library. First resize the library tile so that exactly 10 titles appear in it (put some other tile above it). Then you can just page down a page at a time and select from top to bottom of the titles that are showing.

I attempted to tag more than 10 titles.  It would let me tag them but when I right clicked & clicked on open in a floating window, it would never open the floating window.  It just took forever to hide most of the Perseus Collection.  What I would really like to see is the ability to create folders as in Windows.

I suppose I will eventually have to do this with Perseus (wouldn't have been great to just DL the titles you wanted! Or have the whole Perseus collection DL as hidden files!), so I'm thankful to have this procedure available. Thanks.

I suspect I will spend more time hiding Perseus than I ever will actually using it. [8-)]

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Rosie Perera said:

Now that I've got so many resources in my Hidden Resources folder, I wish that it were more of a full-featured thing like the Library, so I could filter it and browse for specific titles or authors, or things I'd tagged before I hid them, so that I can unhide things selectively more easily. There have been Targums I've wanted to look at after someone referred to them, for example, even though I'd hidden them all at first. And who knows...someday I might be studying the Odyssey and want to see a commentary on the Greek text. (Not likely, though.)

Agreed!!! At this point, putting something in the Hidden file is basically like opening your basement door and tossing it down the darkened stairs...knowing that it's so dank and overwhelming down there that you just as well could have tossed it in the trash, 'cause the chances of ever building up the gumption to go down with the flashlight and try to dig up the one thing you want in that unimaginable pile is slim...or none.

James H. Schafer said:

Thanks Mark for this splendid idea.

My problem is, that even after I drag the resources into the Hidden box, restart Logos, they continue to show up in  My Library.

I thought hiding the resource meant it would no longer show in the Library. Am I right, or  wrong.

I had this problem with a few of the ones from the enormous Perseus collection that I hid, but I restarted Logos again, and they were gone. I think I only had to rehide 10 or 20 of them which were missed on my first pass through.

Could I confirm that hidden resources:

1. Are actually removed from your hard drive, thus reducing the size of your Logos library (and index, when you re-index).

2. Are not re-downloaded the next time you sync.

Excellent, thank you Kevin. I really want to clean up my library by removing a lot of the light reading, devotional literature, and commentaries I never use.

Rosie Perera said:

If you right click on one title in the Library and open it in a floating window, then Alt-Tab (in Windows) back to the Library and click successively on other titles one by one, it will open each of them into that same floating window group, including way more than 10 titles. Then you can Shift click on one of them to drag them all into Hidden Resources at once. It's a bit cumbersome, but it does reduce the amount of precision dragging you need to do.

I found a tweak to Rosie's idea that I hope works for everyone:

1. Open Library and search for what you want to hide (e.g. "Perseus Greek" or "Perseus Latin")

2. Right click on one title and select "open in floating window"

3. Move the floating window to the right and the library pane to the left, so you can see the open arrow/triangle next to book titles

4. Click on the open arrow/triangle in the library of the next resources

5. Repeat that down the library pane until you get to the last one and then get ready for the surprise: it brings the next title up!

6. Leave your mouse there and just keep clicking until it won't let you click no more - there is a limit of 37 (?)

7. Shift click drag from the floating pane to program settings hidden resources.

Repeat about 35 times and Perseus Greek will be hidden.

Cheers!

Thank you so much for this simple tip Mark!