Any update yet on PBB Sync?

PBB Sync for Desktop seems to be fully up and running now and has been ever since the release of Logos 6

One point of contention on this statement -  because there is a size limitation on the compiled PBB files that will sync, I don't use it. Here is why - I have for years had my own way of syncing since Logos didn't provide one. On the laptop I do PB work on, I use Beyond Control to quickly sync the compiled PBs in my local installation with a DropBox folder. Then I have a button on my Verbum install ribbon at the top to do a Scan of the local Dropbox folder. That way, I build, BC syncs to Dropbox, click a button to Scan, and the PB comes in and everything is in sync - I don't have to move source files around and use the cumbersome panel to find and compile the PB.

Back to the size limitation - because it exists, I cannot get rid of my existing mechanism. Now it makes no sense to sync in TWO ways, so the fact that arbitrarily Logos doesn't support sync of ALL PBs, then this is a feature I cannot use. I wish this would change, as it can't be that much extra space considering all the data they sync now, and I am sure they know a fairly small number of people use PBs which is why it took forever to get the support it has today. If anyone at Logos/FL used PBs on multiple computers a lot they would see how tedious it is.

One final point - management of the files uploaded is also non-existent. If you upload a file and want to delete it off the servers, you can't. If you want any kind of better UI to select, compile, sort by dates, etc., which is more important when you have 300+ PBs, you can't.

So I understand your point Tim, I Just wanted to not lose sight of the fact the desktop implementation is rudimentary at best. But we move on to new features instead of completing this one. I suspect FL makes a lot of decisions based on its metrics of how much a feature is used, I wonder if they haven't lost perspective in the fact that maybe a feature isn't used by many because it's too difficult/cumbersome to use - if they finished the implementation it might gain greater acceptance?

Thanks Dave for the update.

I appreciate your frustration I feel the same with better offline functionality. As for being the most requested that is true, but is it easy to do? Without a dropbox sync or some such thing it would be hard to implement. Also is there any way to integrate the files without having a more robust offline capabilities, unless you have them as part of the Logos cloud somehow. I have in personal books a few Biblical commentaries and they could not be effectively used without having the passage guide draw them off the device since personal books would not be in the cloud. I do not know what the answer is, I do remember it once said that development on the mobile device is lower priority because it is not a for sale product, although that makes little sense since technically FL engines are always free. I do not wish to seem like a pessimist FL has brought us useful mobile apps that are improving, sometimes it just feels like a glacial pace that they are developed at. The FL mobile apps do many great things that others do not do, but it is frustrating that Accordance iOS has personal books (aka user modules, via dropbox or on mac WIFI device syncing) and Olivetree has t's own passage guide like feature working offline (resource guide).  And greek and hebrew look up happens in both offline. I referred in another thread to OT/ACC as more dependable. For me what I had meant was not that FL mobile APPS do not function properly, just that I can use it anywhere anytime without the need for wifi or cell signals. I maintain a home phone because I get no cell service at my house... I refer to my cell phone as not dependable, not because of any fault in the iPhones design, but because I can not use it the way i need to always. Because of this I have on purpose sometimes chose  to get a resource in the other programs because it will offer me greater integration at any point in time, not just when I have a signal. Again I say this not to encourage anyone to go to other programs, but to say other programs   can do it, why not FL mobile apps. I have cross compiled my own personal books on a few different occasions so i can have them on my iPad. I purchased the NIDOTTE/NIDNTTE in OT because it allowed me to always use it on my mobile devices in conjunction with the English text tied to the original languages. I value the FL system and integration but for myself the mobile device deficits are something I cannot ignore. And I feel FL does loose sales do to it's inaction at times. It has from me for sure.

-Dan

I'm not counting on Faithlife ever implementing PBB sync on mobile. I have been exploring the various Windows-based tablets that run the full-blown Windows application as my solution. However, the smaller tablets (excluding the Surface Pro line) run Atom processors and have marginal RAM and storage space for me to jump just now. I am hoping that will change in the near future. Of course, that won't solve the issue of reading PBBs on phones.

I know I do not need to express it over and over, in some ways it does relieve a little stress.. Sort of like a digital scream of frustration, only slightly more articulate. But I promise to try not to be too much a broken record... Although I do realize it has been twice this year.... Although first time  was clarifying what I meant when I inferred FL apps were unreliable. Which I attempted to make clear in this post and the reason I went on here was to help reveal what were some of the issues, while i was composing my response of course you replied with your much more helpful response. I do understand that these features are not like flipping a switch to turn on various functions but involves serious coding and testing as well planning to hopefully ensure NEW feature X/Y/Z doesn't interfere with feature A/B/C...

-dan