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BOINC and The Spinning Beach Ball of Death
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Nathan McCance Send message Joined: 31 Dec 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 306,252 RAC: 0 |
Everytime I try to run BOINC Manager on my Mac (10.4.2, 700 MHz, 768 MB RAM) I get the spinning beach ball of death. It just spins and spins and spins. In fact, I have to Force Quit the application everytime I try to run it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the BOINC Manager twice now, with no results. Am I failing to notice extra files? Is there a walkthrough for uninstalling BOINC Manager that I'm not aware of? |
C Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 240 Credit: 7,716,977 RAC: 0 |
Are you talking about machine 1376373? It has been chugging along quite nicely, and just finished it's last WU abut 6 hours ago... C Join Team MacNN |
Nathan McCance Send message Joined: 31 Dec 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 306,252 RAC: 0 |
Are you talking about machine 1376373? It has been chugging along quite nicely, and just finished it's last WU abut 6 hours ago... No, it's actually machine 1359162. It had results that it wasn't able to turn in due to the SETI outage, so I Reset the project and Updated it. From that point on, neither BOINCMenu or BOINC Manager would download any work units. I opened up BOINC Manager, ran a CPU Benchmark, and that's when it began crashing. |
Nuno Ferreira Send message Joined: 24 Jul 05 Posts: 4 Credit: 80,317 RAC: 0 |
Same symptom here. BOINC has behaved perfectly on my MAC G4 1GHZ since I joined SETI back in July this year. Yesterday evening it was still faring all right. This morning when I wanted to check the status of the project all I get is this dreadful spinning beach ball. Tried to Force Quit and started again - same symptom. |
Nuno Ferreira Send message Joined: 24 Jul 05 Posts: 4 Credit: 80,317 RAC: 0 |
Re-starting the computer solved my problem. |
Nathan McCance Send message Joined: 31 Dec 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 306,252 RAC: 0 |
Re-starting the computer solved my problem. This has been happening to me since September 8th. I've restarted my computer at least a dozen times with no effect. I think I haven't deleted all the files for BOINC somehow. Does anyone know the full install path of the application and its files? |
C Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 240 Credit: 7,716,977 RAC: 0 |
I think the default is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ but I'm running mine as CLI on my PowerBook here at work, so I can't tell for sure. I'm running BOINC SETI on my iBook at home using MenuBar with the Team MacNN optimized BOINC client 4.44 and the alexkan&rick optimized SETI Client. Give those a try and see if it gets rid of the beach ball - if it does, you'll be finishing WU about twice as fast, or better... Details here C Join Team MacNN |
Nathan McCance Send message Joined: 31 Dec 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 306,252 RAC: 0 |
I think the default is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ but I'm running mine as CLI on my PowerBook here at work, so I can't tell for sure. Would you mind posting a walkthrough of how to do this? I'm not sure how to put all those pieces together and the directions provided here are not very clear. |
Nathan McCance Send message Joined: 31 Dec 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 306,252 RAC: 0 |
I think the default is Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ but I'm running mine as CLI on my PowerBook here at work, so I can't tell for sure. Would you mind posting a walkthrough of how to do this? I'm not sure how to put all those pieces together and the directions provided here are not very clear. |
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