Posts by Ulysse

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : My PC works on BOINC applications with past expiration date of results (Message 76539)
Posted 19 Mar 2017 by Ulysse
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I have some time ago reorganized my hard disk. I also installed a new BOINC version. It seems to have now no more storage problem. But now I have another problem instead.

Since one month at least the statistics show horizontal lines. In fact this seems to be due to two of three BOINC projects defined on my PC having past expiration date for their present work data: 28 Dec 2016 (Einstein@home) and 12 March 2017 (Prime Grid). For SETI@home it says 10 May 2017, but I guess it was also late for last work data, so that it did not get acknowledgment when finished.

Can someone tell me what to do to avoid my BOINC working uselessly?

My current BOINC version is 7.6.33 for x64, my PC runs Windows 7 professional (x64) and was new when I bought it less than 1 year ago.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 74050)
Posted 13 Nov 2016 by Ulysse
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Prime Grid is active these days with the Riesel problem, the one supposed to have a problem with storage on my PC. It is at over 80% of the current task. I let my PC do work for three projects, it is not a necessity for me. So don't talk to me like that.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73870)
Posted 7 Nov 2016 by Ulysse
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The error messages have come back. (But BOINC is not idle.)
Time to correct this bug!
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73390)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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Since they keep track of the files needed by older versions of system files, they must use significant disk space.

Disk space is now measured in GB, can't imagine that these files are that large. I guess, I will not follow this idea. Thanks for all here. For me the thread can now be closed.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73381)
Posted 18 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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Before this thread is closed, I'd like to understand better this:
About the used but not accounted disk space. Restore points maybe. And I have some memories of using Disk Cleanup Wizard to see, and remove... something, may have been service pack files.

I don't understand the sentence underlined (by me) And: should I find / activate or install what you call "Disk Cleanup Wizard"?
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73317)
Posted 14 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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Hello all here, my three BOINC-projects are working again. This came after a new start of my PC. The reasons I had to expect something like this may have been not really justified, but fact is, this is happening. Among the three, SETI@home is getting relatively little worktime; after what I saw, one reason might be that it is more sensitive to "computer in use" (for example, when I was looking at the task page of the BOINC manager - I translate here "Aufgabe" by "task", it is the 3rd page - the only time that I saw SETI@home active since this problem began, it sufficed that the screen went black due to energy saving options of the PC, so that I moved the mouse to reactivate the screen, to stop SETI@home's activity with reason "computer in use"). I must say that it is the BOINC project (of mine) that has gained least HD space since my answer about the disk space used by the 3 projects (my message # 73304) but may-be it is the one that needs least, and anyway this is true only in absolute terms, because Einstein@home gained less in relative terms (~ 4% vs. 10+% for SETI), while PrimeGrid has more than doubled its disk space, being now the one using most. This seems to show that SETI@home doesn't really need the extra 32 MB, but this might be due to different subprojects, i.e. it might have had work available only for subproject(s) needing more space, but now again work in a subproject with little disk space needed. If the latter is true, the notice from server might come again later. And the same might be the case for PrimeGrid, although it has now got a large part (but not all) of the extra space it claimed in the other notice from server. SETI uses still less than 15 MB ...

Another thing is the potential problem with free disk space on C: discovered in the handling of this (here I'm talking about Windows in general). I can't exclude that it has already produced the problem I had on starting Windows the day before yesterday (whose cause remains unknown to me, although it is now handled). The idea to move the BOINC data to D: looks good, and I would have deinstalled BOINC if it had continued to be idle after restart - the simplest solution given in a page to which I got a link in message # 73306 would include de- and re-install. - but now I see disadvantages in the simple solutions proposed in said page and the others without disadvantage but may-be risky ...
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73312)
Posted 13 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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When I wrote my messsage # 73310 I had not yet seen all former replies. So you may ignore much of it. Also my test what happens on restart I'll make after this and tell you the result.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73310)
Posted 13 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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I've had this in the past when, for no apparent reason, the BOINC data directory has become write protected.

What is this directory? You mean C:\ProgramData\BOINC - normally hidden in Windows - which is shown by the windows file explorer with a padlock symbol? (does this mean that the data in it are encrypted or somehow protected?) The dir. seemed indeed to be marked as write protected (with the indication that it concerns only files in the dir.) but when I tried to change that (on C:\ProgramFiles\BOINC, the only BOINC directory that I found first ... until I remembered that ProgramData-directories are hidden), I got the message that I need admin rights to do that, which I DO have. May-be Windows did the change when I said "continue" (a click) but I did not see the effect. Trying again with the data dir. I saw no such admin rights message again, but it's not clear what really happened. I'll look what happens after restarting my PC.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73304)
Posted 13 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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That should be fine. The next step would be to check whether one of your projects (the most likely would be Einstein) might actually have filled up the 15 GB space allowed. That can happen.

I saw: (I am translating, so it may not be quite wordly)
under "Harddisk Memory use by BOINC"
Einstein@home 88,16 MB
Prime Grid 51,76 MB
SETI@home 11,12 MB
[my comment: all these values are much smaller than 15 GB = 15000 MB]
and BTW 2,06 GB are said there to be free.

So the text "you currently have 0 MB available" is misleading (the 0 being just a constant of the message, if I understand well!), and apparently the 32 MB needed (for SETI@home) and the 114+ MB for PrimeGrid are what is needed more. But as I said before, there are up to 15 GB (= 15000 MB) and 80% of total allowed for BOINC, and it must leave 5 GB free. So why is it that BOINC does not find the 32+114 MB? On the page indicated by one of you where I found this, it is written that these indications (the 15 GB / 5 GB / 80%) are valid except for "computers, for which local settings have been stored via the BOINC manager" (my approx. translation) ... can't remember having done that, but just in case, how can I verify? Unless such is the case, please admit that the problem is a bug (dependent on I know not what) and should therefore be communicated to the makers of BOINC.

I also looked into the Windows file explorer: I have 2 HD partitions C: and D: (what is I think perfectly normal on recent PCs) and the explorer says D: (349 GB) is only filled with data for less than ~ 0.2 GB (200 MB), C: (100 GB) is full of data except ~ 813 MB (0,8 GB) but contains only files for < 61 GB (even if I make "hidden" files and protected system files visible, otherwise only 44 GB) so, what is with the other ~ 38 GB of C: ? (for the waste bin max. 20 GB are allowed - currently only < 3 MB = 0.003 GB used) is that used by BOINC? "dead space"? (how to release?) I have also a third partition for saving RAM and screen storage so that automatic shut down after some idle time (with later restart of all former active things) is possible, like for most laptop PCs (but mine is desktop); I don't think this in included in C: (Windows doesn't show that partition)
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73224)
Posted 10 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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That should be fine. The next step would be to check whether one of your projects (the most likely would be Einstein) might actually have filled up the 15 GB space allowed. That can happen.

How do I do that? With the new BOINC I installed on my present PC it is so different
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73214)
Posted 10 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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instead of BB read GB
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73213)
Posted 10 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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Check all four columns, and if any of them say zero, click the 'edit' (...)

I use only the column "standard" because I have only one PC to participate. And the numbers there are not 0 (but 15 BB, 5 GB, 80%) Does this no more work?
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : What can I do with the following messages about "more disk space needed"? (Message 73157)
Posted 9 Oct 2016 by Ulysse
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I am using BOINC version 7.6.22 (x64) under Windows 7 Professional (64 bits)
Two BOINC projects are involved (see the messages) but I also run Einstein@home. (Currently all three are inactive, having "no work to do". (Wordly, in German: "Keine Aufgaben zu bearbeiten" ... this suggests it might be a real problem) These are the messages:

SETI@home: Notice from server
SETI@home v8 needs 32.00MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.
05.10.2016 08:19:07
========= (here a separator line) =========
PrimeGrid: Notice from server
The Riesel Problem (LLR) needs 114.44MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 114.44 MB.
05.10.2016 08:18:56
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to merge lists of participating computers when different mail-addresses (Message 69571)
Posted 12 May 2016 by Ulysse
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On 2 PCs I let BOINC projects calculate, which is visible in this picture then for some months due to a problem that was difficult to solve (can't remember precisely what) I stopped with BOINC because I had decided that I'll buy soon a new PC, which I have now (I write this on it). In the mean time, I suppressed the E-Mail address used before for BOINC. Now my new PC is participating in BOINC, visible here with a different mail-address. I changed the E-mail used with BOINC. Now I cannot change the old mail used in BOINC to the new one (message: there is already such a mail address in BOINC). So how can I merge the 2 histories?



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