Accordance
Accordance Bible is a program
that is provided to all seminary students while attending PTS. You will be
able to access Accordance from the Mac OS X and Windows partition of the
computer labs in Stuart, CRW campus, or the Library public machines. You will
need to have a seminary account to access this information.
Keep in mind this application is
running off of a server and response may be slow to respond to certain
commands.
For more information on
Accordance Bible Software, please visit Accordance’s website at: http://www.accordancebible.com
For more information regarding
the operation of Accordance, please contact: academic.technology@ptsem.edu.
Please utilize the below
instruction on how to access and run Accordance on your preferred operating
system.
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Once you log in to the Mac OS X partition of the Lab machines,
you will find an icon on your desktop labeled, “Mac$”. This is the shared
drive that stores the Accordance application and background support
information.
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**If the shared folder
does not show up after log in, you can use the connect to server command (
command + K ) and use the server address of smb://accordance.pts-eden.org/mac$
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Double-Click the application from the folder.
Accordance will prompt you to create a location to save your
information to.
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**Important note: Due
to our security and privacy setting for all computers, you will have to
repeat this step each time you sign into a computer.
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Please set the save location to your H: drive by:
1. On the left hand side of
the selection window, Locate the " Shared" section
2. This will display a list
of connected servers, please select files03.pts-eden.org*
3. Select Users$ and your
username$
4. Click Choose and the
default save location is set.
Here is an image of the recommended location for saving
Accordance data to your H: Drive in Mac OS X
*If the list of connected servers does not show up by default,
you can display them using the show option. Located to the right of the
Shared section, you will find a "Show" option that will appear as
you move your cursor. Please see the image below for a quick reference.
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When you log into the Window partition of the computer lab
machines a folder containing Accordance for Windows will automatically
connect for your user. You will need to navigate to this folder in order to
open the application.
Please use File Explorer to open a new window and select
"This PC". You will find a shared folder named
"Accordance". Double click the folder to open it.
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*If this folder does
not show up automatically, you can manually connect to it. To do so, please
select the windows icon in the left hand corner and search for
"run". open the run application and enter \\accordance\pc$ and click ok. The drive
should connect.
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From the List of applications locate the Accordance
application from the list and double click it to open it. (Please keep in
mind that since this program is running off of a remote computer it will take
a few minutes to open).
You will then be propmted to define your save location from
the Accordance files. Please save these files to your H drive.
From the list provided, please select "This PC",
Select the folder with your name and select ok.
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**Important note: Due
to our security and privacy setting for all computers, you will have to
repeat this step each time you sign into a computer.
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