Hello, Ward.
Thank you for contacting us.
Regarding the
Minutes to wait…, here is the
missing linked-to explanation. See sec. 4.10.3. In summary, the default setting of 5 minutes is slow and lazy but very conservative of system resources. Some users set it to 1 minute and we've not had any complaints. Because I'm constantly testing our apps, I leave it at 1 minute and don't notice any problems. We've considered reducing the default time to 1 or 2 minutes but have left it at 5 mostly because of
If it ain't broke don't fix it. In addition to syncing faster (faster is always better), lowering it to 1 minute will also reduce the probability of conflicts, as explained in the middle paragraph of
this post.
Regarding those "?" Help Buttons not working, that is another sad story of a very nice feature of macOS which Apple broke in macOS 10.14. We worked around the bug by linking to our Help Book on the internet instead of in the sadly ignored and broken
Apple Help Viewer, but only if the system running is 10.14. Unfortunately, I recently learned that it is also effectively broken in earlier macOS versions such as your 10.13, with our current versions such as your BookMacster 2.9.8, because Apple also broke the
help indexer utility which we use in building our apps. Therefore, the next version of BookMacster (2.9.9) will also open links on our web page, which will work, instead of attempting to use the very sad Apple Help Viewer.