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Message 33928 - Posted: 24 Jul 2010, 9:07:03 UTC

It's impossible to launch BOINC for two days !

When the soft oppen, it launch the screensaver and there's no way to hide it or unactivate it. It just pop everytime I want to close it, so I can't access to my account, preferences or my stats ect...
I'm on a macintosh and my version is Boinc 6.10.58.
I tryed to reinstal it but I've got the same thing.

Is this a common problem? Should I delete a file?

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Message 33952 - Posted: 26 Jul 2010, 5:33:49 UTC - in response to Message 33928.  

What if you open the screensaver control panel and select a different (not BOINC) screensaver, to see if that other screensaver always runs? At least that would tell us if it is a BOINC problem or something else.

Are you sure it's the screen saver? Aren't you opening a Show Graphics window in BOINC Manager instead?
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Message 33976 - Posted: 28 Jul 2010, 20:42:26 UTC - in response to Message 33952.  

I tryed to change the screensaver with the preference panel of my OS, but it doesn't change anything. The others screensavers runs but same problem when I launch Boinc. So it might be the graphics window, but I can't reach the preference panel, because of the instant repop of the graphics window. Kinda annoying, above all because I read a lot of questions and it was mentionned nowhere...

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Message 33977 - Posted: 29 Jul 2010, 3:14:19 UTC

You may have to re-install BOINC.
There's a repair option that pops up if you don't first un-install BOINC, but I'm not sure what options this gives you.

If you first un-install, and then re-install, (for Windows at least), on the 3rd screen in, there's a button in the bottom right, Advanced, that gives you another screen where you can select/not select the screen saver when BOINC runs.
(Also allows where to install the 2 parts of BOINC.)

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Message 34091 - Posted: 8 Aug 2010, 15:18:56 UTC - in response to Message 33977.  

(Sorry for the delay)
It finally works !
Thanks for the help, everything is alright.

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