I'm running WCG using Boinc 5.8.0 and I want to download more than 10 units at a time. I posted this matter at the WCG forum but nobody offered any solution. My computer can finish 10 work units in one day and WCG work units have a report deadline of one week. It would mean that I can download more than 50 work units without missing the deadline.

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Change your "Connect to server" setting in the general preferences to something higher. If WCG uses that at least and I can't check as My Grid is offline.

Um, but you can also change it manually.
Exit BOINC.
Navigate to your BOINC folder (default at C:\\Program Files\\BOINC).
Find and edit with Notepad (or another text editor) global_prefs.xml
Change the day count in the <work_buf_min_days>X.X</work_buf_min_days> tags.
Save the file (not save as..!!)
Restart BOINC and update on WCG.

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Hello Ageless,

I've experimented with different values in the <work_buf_min_days>X.X</work_buf_min_days> tag and in the "Connect to server" settings in WCG but I only get a maximum of 10 work units. Every time these 10 units are finished, BOINC downloads another set of 10 work units and I couldn't get past more than 10 units. I have set the "Connect to server" value between 0.1 and 7 but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the amount of WUs that BOINC downloads.

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Jeeze, that's difficult to find there.

Try setting it in the device manager's options. And try to update to the latest Boinc version, in case it was a problem with 5.8.0 .. 5.8.2 is just released for Windows. Still as an alpha version.

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I've updated to 5.8.2 and changed my "Connect to server" setting from the Device Manager in WCG but I'm still out of luck, :-). I'm only running one project in BOINC at present (that is, WCG). Anyway, I guess I have to suffer 10 units at a time, hehehe!

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Is there a project-limit on the number of work units which can be downloaded? Is it possible that you're hitting that limit?

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Thanks for the info Sek and sorry for saying that nobody at WCG told me how to do this thing. I was wrong, I've posted this matter before at BOINC Forum and not at WCG. I'm really sorry. Thanks to everyone!

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