Logos 4 and Large Updates - back to 3 for me!

Just to set the scene I was involved from beta testing days and it seems to me that the update system that caused so many problems in beta times has not been sorted and is still a problem. In South Africa we do not have unlimited download facilities, and internet is a rather expensive commodity, and we are charged per byte if we exceed our monthly quota of 3 gig.

I was away from a permanent download line for about 3 weeks and for that period set my internet to off and thus did no updates.

Yesterday morning I reconnected to the internet. I have till now downloaded about 7 gig of who knows what! I noticed this morning that Logos 4 is now 4.0a.

What are the rest of the downloads?

By the way I am busy with a 471meg one again!!!!!! It started with a 2.2 gig download, then continually every time the program restarts I am informed there is an update available. This is really not enjoyable, as I have to pay for every bite that downloads, I have no control over the process and no way of knowing what is happening on my system.

I have now reached a point of no return in my patience levels (and bye
the way financially as well), and am seriously considering if I should not shelve 4 until the update problems have been sorted. Please programmers this is an area that seriously needs attention, we have to have control over what we update. WE NEED A SYSTEM WHERE WE CAN CHOOSE WHAT WE WANT TO UPDATE AND NOT BE FORCED TO ACCEPT EVERYTHING THAT IS QUEUED FOR US TO RECEIVE. I am sure that many of the updates are on resources that I do not necessarily want to spend money updating as I am not interested in all the pictures, and large graphic files! If I had some control I could decide which resources to update and which I would choose to leave. In the USA this may seem to be a non entity with fast download speeds, and unlimited data downloads. But for some of us this is serious, and really does generate a feeling of badwill towards Logos.

While I have been writing this the 471 meg download has completed and I now have a 72.6 meg download. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON NOW SINCE YESTERDAY, just get a download completed and even before the reindexing starts there is another download. I AM G.V.

Unless there is some or other solution, or someone points out something I am doing wrong it will be time for me to shelve Logos4. SO SAD ! I just cannot afford to spend money on resources as well as these updates. To put this in perspective it has cost me R500.00 already in extra bandwidth costs, and there is NO WAY that I can determine when this circus performance will end and when my spending will come to a stop.

The 72.6 meg download has completed an I have a 471meg download being forced on me, again, so this would now take me to over 8gig.

I am disabling internet and all further updates until I get an answer, as this is now ridiculous.

I AM A VERY DISILLUSIONED AND UNHAPPY LOGOS CUSTOMER!