1) Message boards : Projects : Problem with no disk space for SETI@home (Message 57768) Posted 17 Nov 2014 by Ulysse Keller Post: Why no more answer? Should I just do what I wrote in my last post to this theme? (In one part I do not know how)

2) Message boards : Projects : Problem with no disk space for SETI@home (Message 57576) Posted 11 Nov 2014 by Ulysse Keller Post: How big is the hard drive that the C: and D: partitions are on? The "Use at most 40% of total disk space" value is calculated over the whole hard drive, not just the partition BOINC its data directory is on. As I said, C: has 92.2 GB and D: has 45.1 GB. Together that's 137.3 GB which must be the size of the hard disk drive, because I believe that I did not install any other partition - too difficult with newer Windows versions (I have Vista), one needs special software that is either expensive or does not work with the OS installed ... I did such a thing on my laptop that I seldom use these days, because I wanted to work with Linux - so please ignore the very improbable possibility. 40 % of 137.3 is ~ 55 GB, which is anyway more than the limit of 15 GB and BOINC seems to use only ~ a half GB ... I guess that this is enough for Einstein@home. It must have been taken over from the old BOINC version - remember the problem began after updating my BOINC ! Where do the 511 GB come from? (BTW is there a place in Windows that shows the total size of hard disk?) So I ask again, should I reduce the space that must be left free? (now 30 GB, which are not even reached because the free space on C: is a bit smaller) or force Einstein@h. to use less (how can I do this?) or may-be both? or change something else?

3) Message boards : Projects : Problem with no disk space for SETI@home (Message 57514) Posted 10 Nov 2014 by Ulysse Keller Post: Thank you. I was in there (already before I got your answer) but don't see what I must change. It says (I'm translating from German, so the texts in the engl. vers. might be a bit different) Use at most 15 GB Keep free at least 30 GB Use at most 40% of total disk space (the other contents of the [sub-] page seem to play no role) This I get independently of the project that is highlighted, so it may be global BOINC-preferences or just defaults for all projects (that I did not change) or I might have (long ago) copied preferences from one project to others (may-be due to good results with the first). Other indications that might be useful: in the stat's-page of the BOINC manager it says: 510.89 MB occupied by BOINC, and 28.30 GB free, and 63.40 GB occupied by other things. Concerning my C: - drive (my HD has C: and D:) Windows expl. says total 92.2 GB, free 28.3 GB (same value), occupied 63.9 GB (= total - free, of course); by subtracting from these the 63.4 GB one gets ~ a half GB which is supposed to be occupied by BOINC. (D: which has a total of 45.1 GB, is apparently not accessible to BOINC.) Now, of the ~ 511 MB occ.'d by BOINC 502.29 are given to Einstein@h., leaving only less than 9 MB for other BOINC projects, which is < 32, so anyway not enough for SETI. But SETI does not even use all that, the rest is shown blank in the stat's picture of disk use, I guess because it is "owned" by the "invisible" project Rosetta@h. which may still be somewhere around. So, where can I pull down the (posthume) "greed" (in disk space) of the genius of relativity? If I manage to do this, will it solve my problem with the extraterrestrials (still hidden or may-be not existent in this universe)? Another thing is that the 30 GB to be left free seem to be too much, this I can change in the "page" you mention, may-be that alone helps (if Einstein does not "steal" all new available space ;-) )

4) Message boards : Projects : Problem with no disk space for SETI@home (Message 57512) Posted 10 Nov 2014 by Ulysse Keller Post: I get a message in the BOINC interface for SETI@home = one of my BOINC projects, the other one being Einstein@home, I also had before installing recent BOINC due to an older message that I should do so: Rosetta@home (I don't know why not now) and intend to add project PrimeGrid (among other resons because it includes the Riesel search which had its own project - that disappeared due to manager having quit - and which I also had as a project). I can't see anymore the exact message, it says about that: it needs 32 MB disk space (if not 32 GB even) but it seems to have currently only 3.82 MB. So where can I change this? In my preferences (or options, if you prefer, I have these things in German) I found nowhere to set this!

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