On all of my machines (Win XP on P4, Intel Mac on Xeon, G4 Mac) the new BOINC 5.10.7 starts up and persists in saying "No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults"

I double-checked that each machine is not using local preferences, including clicking the new "Clear" button in the new Boinc Manager - Preferences dialog.

BOINC proceeds to operate without using the Web-based General Prefs I have always (and still) have set, even after using the Project Update feature to fetch prefs. Example: After installing the new BOINC, my Intel Mac started using 4 CPU cores instead of 3 as before and as dictated in my BOINC General Prefs in the Web interface of setiathome.berkeley.edu.

Am I the only one having this problem?

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I forwarded a note to a developer.

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BOINC WIKI

In case it's useful, here's an example of the start-up messages I get when I restart BOINC 5.10.7:

Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.7 for powerpc-apple-darwin
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007|SETI@home|Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Processor: 1 Power Macintosh Power Macintosh [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac10,1] [AltiVec]
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Processor features: 
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Memory: 1.00 GB physical, 39.68 GB virtual
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Disk: 74.41 GB total, 39.44 GB free
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007|Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 335019; location: home; project prefs: default
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 1306287; location: home; project prefs: default
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 512.00MB
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.60MB
Fri Jun 22 09:57:52 2007||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
Fri Jun 22 09:57:53 2007|Einstein@Home|Restarting task h1_0488.35_S5R2__321_S5R2c_1 using einstein_S5R2 version 420

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I found another thread reporting same problem:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1899

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Are you a musician? Join the Musicians teams on SETI, Einstein, CPDN, or Predictor at:
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