I have 3 tasks in my task list in an "In Progress" state on the website that are no longer on my local computer. Not sure how they ended up that way...perhaps I did a "Reset Project" over the weekend during the upload/download outage.

Now I know I can wait until the deadline (3 weeks from now), but 1 of them is already awaiting credit from my wingman. Is there any way to release these tasks or abort them so that my wingmen don't have to wait so long?

1170735470 417814042 22 Feb 2009 17:07:02 UTC 17 Mar 2009 20:48:47 UTC In progress --- New
1170735456 417814046 22 Feb 2009 17:07:02 UTC 18 Mar 2009 7:08:42 UTC In progress --- New
1170735450 417814057 22 Feb 2009 17:07:02 UTC 17 Mar 2009 20:48:47 UTC In progress --- New

No, they'll have to wait until the deadline has passed and the task is resent to another computer.

We call these "ghost tasks". They happen when your computer asks for work, the Seti scheduler acknowledges that, asks the database to appoint you work and then due to a problem in communications this work never reaches you. Like with the communication problems this weekend. It is nothing to worry about, it happens to all of us at times.

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Ok, I was just trying to be considerate to my fellow BOINCers. :)