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Message 35257 - Posted: 17 Oct 2010, 13:34:50 UTC

Hi, i'm new on this forum... I use boinc for a long time but since yesterday i cannot change my global preferences...
The menù "advanced" isn't visible like other menùs, i can only change betwen "Projects, Transfer, Messages,Statics..." voices of boinc projects...
Sorry for my bad english

Thanks a lot for now
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Message 35258 - Posted: 17 Oct 2010, 17:26:18 UTC - in response to Message 35257.  

"Projects, Transfer, Messages, Statistics..." are tabs, you'll have to look for the Advanced menu, above the tabs.

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Message 35267 - Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 6:25:26 UTC

When i press on advenced view
i only get this viev without tabs so i cannot modify my local preferences and other things. Can you help me? Thanks a lot for now

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Message 35270 - Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 6:55:18 UTC - in response to Message 35267.  

Strange.

What operating system are you using?
What version of BOINC?
Where did you download BOINC from?

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Message 35271 - Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 6:56:58 UTC - in response to Message 35267.  
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In that picture the title line (including system buttons) of the window as well as the menu bar is missing.

What operating system are you using?

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[edit]1.5 minutes late :-)[/edit]
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Message 35272 - Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 7:03:58 UTC

Fedora 12 x86_64, kernel 2.6.32.21-168.fc12.x86_64
Boinc is 6.10.58 for linux that i've downloaded from boinc site directly.
Until three days ago I saw them but since I upgraded they have disappeared.
I tryed to unistall and reinstall from fedora repos but nothing to do, only the same window
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Message 35273 - Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 8:45:02 UTC - in response to Message 35272.  

As a workaround (until you rediscover the menu bar:-) you could use the online preferences. They are also global, i.e. you only need to set them at one project. If you previously have used the local preferences though, you'll have to delete (rename) the global_prefs_override.xml file in your BOINC data directory, because the local preferences (as the file name says) override the global ones.

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Message 35274 - Posted: 18 Oct 2010, 9:41:42 UTC

I set global preferences through the project sites, but every time I change I will have to change it from there... Thanks for now... I hope it's a bug of boinc... :D
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Message 35569 - Posted: 31 Oct 2010, 20:54:03 UTC - in response to Message 35274.  

This has just been reported here as happening on Ubuntu.

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