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Jim Scherr

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Message 6205 - Posted: 27 Oct 2006, 6:09:46 UTC

I upgraded Boinc manager to 5.4.9 on OS X. Since then the tasks window has reported a status of activities suspended for the two projects I'm running (SETI and Einstein). I've never encountered this with previous versions of Boinc. Any suggestions to get the tasks running?
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MikeMarsUK

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Message 6208 - Posted: 27 Oct 2006, 7:40:42 UTC

Unsuspend :-)

Easier said than done, there are three different ways of suspending.

* Go to the work/tasks tab, and select the suspended work unit. If there is a button called 'resume', then click it once.

* Go to the project tab, and select the suspended project. If 'project suspended' appears in italics against the project name, then click the resume button.

* Go to the activity menu, and see if 'suspend' has a dot next to it. If so, then click on 'run always'.

The third is usually the best suspend/unsuspend option to use, since the others can result in new work units downloading to your PC unexpectedly.
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Message 6218 - Posted: 27 Oct 2006, 15:27:50 UTC

Thank you Mike for your suggestions. I have tried options 1 and 2 with no success. Option 3 has me sightly puzzled. Where is the activity menu? Do you mean right clicking on the icon in the Dock or is it a PC thing (I'm running a Mac)? In previous versions of Boinc, right clicking on the icon in the Dock brought up an option to run always or suspend. This new version does not have these options. The only option is sleep and the problem presists if sleep is on or off.
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Message 6219 - Posted: 27 Oct 2006, 16:17:40 UTC - in response to Message 6218.  

Thank you Mike for your suggestions. I have tried options 1 and 2 with no success. Option 3 has me sightly puzzled. Where is the activity menu? Do you mean right clicking on the icon in the Dock or is it a PC thing (I'm running a Mac)? In previous versions of Boinc, right clicking on the icon in the Dock brought up an option to run always or suspend. This new version does not have these options. The only option is sleep and the problem presists if sleep is on or off.

Which version are your running?

Version 5.2.x it was under the Commands menu
Version 5.4.x and 5.6.x it is under the Activity menu

Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470
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Jim Scherr

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Message 6221 - Posted: 27 Oct 2006, 18:02:45 UTC

I'm running version 5.6.9 Mac OS X universal. Where is this Activities menu? Is it a PC menu or a Mac menu?
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MikeMarsUK

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Message 6223 - Posted: 27 Oct 2006, 19:16:42 UTC

It should be part of the Boinc manager (certainly not a part of Windows!). I have no idea what the Mac boinc manager user interface contains.
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Sebastian Masch

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Message 6224 - Posted: 28 Oct 2006, 10:30:54 UTC

Wasn't 5.6.9 actually broken, reporting always a false suspend state? Updating to a newer version should fix that in this case.
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