1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Message says "Not enough disk space", prefs say otherwise (Message 2227) Posted 25 Dec 2005 by Hibernator Post: Don't set 'Use no more than' to a value greater than your available disk sapce. Thanks for the fast response; that seems to have fixed the problem. I would respectfully like to suggest that the next major version of BOINC should go through formal usability testing before the user interface is solidified. We need to make it as easy as possible for novice users to join the BOINC community.

2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Message says "Not enough disk space", prefs say otherwise (Message 2225) Posted 25 Dec 2005 by Hibernator Post: I'm a new BOINC user, and I'm unable to get it to download any work. When I connect to projects I get the following messages: Message from server: No work sent Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated) Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 100.0 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for maximum disk space used. After looking in vain through the application UI for disk space preferences, I came here to the forum and discovered the web-based preferences (very non-obvious and confusing, please fix this in the next major release by making all preferences accessible from the application UI). However, the web-based preferences say: Use no more than 100 GB disk space Leave at least 0.1 GB disk space free Use no more than 50% of total disk space I have more than 9GB free on C: and 54GB free on D: (where BOINC is installed). It seems to me that the error messages are incorrect, and that my disk space preferences allow much more than 100MB of space for the projects. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? How do I work around it? Thanks, Pat

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