I've just installed Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and the OS installer generated a dialog box telling me to re-install BOINC. Unfortunately after running the latest posted download of the BOINC installer for Mac OS (6.6.36), the application fails to run correctly and an error message states that 6.6.36 is not compatible with the new OS.

Is there a workaround for this problem? Is a new Mac version of the BOINC installer under development?

Thanks,

Clint D. Harper, Ph.D.
Moorpark College

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I also installed Mac OS 10.6 and received the dialog box about an improper permission and that I should reinstall BOINC. I successfully reinstalled 6.6.36 and it is working normally. Maybe a second (or third) attempt to reinstall will be successful for you. Note: I have not gotten the BOINC screen saver to work... a message says it is incompatible with 10.6. :-( We hope for an upgrade.

Thanks again,

Charlie Arms

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I got the same message about permissions, but all was cleared up with a reinstall. Everything is operating correctly now it seems.

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Same thing here in NJ. I got the permission message, I reinstalled, and all is well.

Bill from Nutley.

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Ditto for me, reinstalled for the permission fix and running fine.

I run 6.6.29 though,

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Count me as one of those who have had BONIC fail after upgrading to Snow Leopard. I'm uninstalling it today and awaiting an announcement of a 10.6 compatible version.

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I updated to Snow Leopard also and I had an older version of BOINC. When the program launched there was error message and the program failed to work. Later that day I got the newer version of BOINC 6.636 and now it's working fine on my machine. You might want to do uninstall and start over, this might work for you, it worked for me.

The search for ET must continue DITTOs.

Same problem here. I installed 6.10.0 and it seems to be working fine... no problems as of yet. Hopefully we'll see a new app specifically for Snow Leopard to take advantage of Grand Central or whatever it's called...

Specifically for screen saver problems, but also just to be able to install and run BOINC on Snow Leopard:

Charlie Fenton, Macintosh BOINC developer wrote:

Hi Jord,

Snow Leopard has broken _all_ third-party screensavers. (Not even Apple's older screensavers work; Apple has updated them all.)

I have fixed this in BOINC 6.10.0 and 6.10.2. But of course they are still alpha releases.

6.10.0 is available from here.
6.10.2 is available from here.

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When is Charlie going to add astro pulse to the mac client?

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He won't as he doesn't work for Seti. Charlie is a BOINC developer only. He doesn't make applications for any project. So that has to be someone else then, most likely Dotsch. Didn't you see his thread?

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I got it to work for me but it is barely getting any new tasks. Every time I update it it says no new tasks available. You can't tell me Arecibo is taking a break.

It doesn't work for me with the last version of Snow Leopard...