Problem: Transfer tab is empty. Event log shows transfers. BOINC 7.8.3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

Description: I can see from the Event log that transfers are being made. However, the Transfer tab does not show any transfers. I've included portions of the Event log showing uploads and downloads.

Environment: BOINC Manager 7.8.3
MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 (16G29)
Projects: Rosetta@home, SETI@home

Event log excerpt showing uploads:
Thu Oct 26 08:16:26 2017 | SETI@home | Finished upload of 12fe07ab.7363.312898.12.39.139_1_r509687618_0
Thu Oct 26 08:39:30 2017 | Rosetta@home | Computation for task rb_10_22_78445_121028__t000__3_C1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_524101_105_0 finished
Thu Oct 26 08:39:30 2017 | SETI@home | Starting task 03ap08ad.28886.8894.4.31.171_1
Thu Oct 26 08:39:32 2017 | Rosetta@home | Started upload of rb_10_22_78445_121028__t000__3_C1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_524101_105_0_r948990948_0
Thu Oct 26 08:39:49 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished upload of rb_10_22_78445_121028__t000__3_C1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_524101_105_0_r948990948_0
Thu Oct 26 08:46:12 2017 | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
Thu Oct 26 08:49:12 2017 | | Resuming GPU computation
Thu Oct 26 08:55:52 2017 | SETI@home | Computation for task blc03_2bit_blc03_guppi_57898_17982_DIAG_KIC8462852_0021.7311.818.18.27.103.vlar_1 finished
Thu Oct 26 08:55:52 2017 | SETI@home | Starting task 12fe07ab.7363.312898.12.39.170_0
Thu Oct 26 08:55:54 2017 | SETI@home | Started upload of blc03_2bit_blc03_guppi_57898_17982_DIAG_KIC8462852_0021.7311.818.18.27.103.vlar_1_r1799539426_0
Thu Oct 26 08:55:58 2017 | SETI@home | Finished upload of blc03_2bit_blc03_guppi_57898_17982_DIAG_KIC8462852_0021.7311.818.18.27.103.vlar_1_r1799539426_0
Thu Oct 26 09:00:35 2017 | SETI@home | Computation for task 12fe07ab.7730.311671.11.38.25_0 finished
Thu Oct 26 09:00:35 2017 | SETI@home | Starting task 12fe07ab.7395.312898.13.40.159_0
Thu Oct 26 09:00:37 2017 | SETI@home | Started upload of 12fe07ab.7730.311671.11.38.25_0_r28693447_0
Thu Oct 26 09:00:41 2017 | SETI@home | Finished upload of 12fe07ab.7730.311671.11.38.25_0_r28693447_0
Thu Oct 26 09:14:26 2017 | | Suspending computation - on batteries
Thu Oct 26 09:14:35 2017 | | Resuming computation
Thu Oct 26 09:14:35 2017 | SETI@home | Starting task 13ja07ac.27538.12751.16.43.151_1
Thu Oct 26 09:14:37 2017 | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
Thu Oct 26 09:16:45 2017 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.

Event log except showing downloads:
Thu Oct 26 09:41:06 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished download of HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainA_HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainB_patchdock_split_03_17_10_18_50_46.patchdock
Thu Oct 26 09:41:06 2017 | Rosetta@home | Started download of HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainA_HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainB_patchdock_split_03_17_10_18_50_46.pdb
Thu Oct 26 09:41:08 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished download of HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainA_HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainB_patchdock_split_03_17_10_18_50_46.pdb
Thu Oct 26 09:41:08 2017 | Rosetta@home | Started download of HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainA_HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainB_17_10_18_50_46.pdb
Thu Oct 26 09:41:10 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished download of HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainA_HPR_mono2c_dimer40_chainB_17_10_18_50_46.pdb
Thu Oct 26 09:41:10 2017 | Rosetta@home | Started download of GCNTF2R2_data.zip
Thu Oct 26 09:41:18 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished download of tj_10_24_juncA_X_DHR79_heat_l4_h2_t2_t0_fragments_fold_data.zip
Thu Oct 26 09:41:18 2017 | Rosetta@home | Started download of d1tc_p1-15H-GBL-16H-GABBL-15H_0031_0001.168_data.zip
Thu Oct 26 09:41:21 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished download of GCNTF2R2_data.zip
Thu Oct 26 09:41:25 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished download of d1tc_p1-15H-GBL-16H-GABBL-15H_0031_0001.168_data.zip
Thu Oct 26 09:43:07 2017 | SETI@home | Computation for task 02mr07ab.19062.4980.9.36.71_0 finished
Thu Oct 26 09:43:09 2017 | Rosetta@home | Starting task GCNTF2R2_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_524692_931_0
Thu Oct 26 09:43:10 2017 | SETI@home | Started upload of 02mr07ab.19062.4980.9.36.71_0_r1043964231_0
Thu Oct 26 09:43:12 2017 | SETI@home | Finished upload of 02mr07ab.19062.4980.9.36.71_0_r1043964231_0
Thu Oct 26 10:15:26 2017 | Rosetta@home | Starting task d1tc_p1-15H-GBL-16H-GABBL-15H_0031_0001.168_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_519621_139_0
Thu Oct 26 10:43:44 2017 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
Thu Oct 26 10:43:44 2017 | SETI@home | Reporting 1 completed tasks
Thu Oct 26 10:43:44 2017 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for AMD/ATI GPU
Thu Oct 26 10:43:46 2017 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

Thu Oct 26 08:39:32 2017 | Rosetta@home | Started upload of rb_10_22_78445_121028__t000__3_C1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_524101_105_0_r948990948_0
Thu Oct 26 08:39:49 2017 | Rosetta@home | Finished upload of rb_10_22_78445_121028__t000__3_C1_SAVE_ALL_OUT_IGNORE_THE_REST_524101_105_0_r948990948_0

I think that's the longest one, and it only took 17 seconds.

Transfers only show in BOINC Manager while they are actively in progress - you would only see that one happening if you happened to be looking at the transfers tab during that 17 second interval. Most of the others took 4 seconds or even 2 seconds - that's a 'flash and it's gone'.

Are you saying that you have never, ever, seen a transfer visible on the transfers tab, or were you expecting (perhaps) to see a historic list of the transfers which have happened previously?

I was indeed expecting to see a historic list of transfers. Thank you for the quick response and explanation. Was there a time when BOINC did show a historical list? Or, it may be that my previous internet connections were that much slower. We have at&t fiber now. It's not perfect, but there are some things that it does Very quickly! That's not a complaint, by the way.

Many Thanks!

That was a lucky guess on my part! No, the historic lists only appear via the message log: that's viewable for the current session (since last re-start) only. But data for previous sessions is accessible via the files 'stdoutdae.txt' and 'stdoutdae.old' in your BOINC data directory.

If you're interested in history, you can also look at the various 'job_log_<project name>.txt' files, also in your data directory: they keep a record of the tasks you have completed.

Thanks! I'll take a look at those.