SETI@home Enhanced needs 32.00MB more disk space

I am receiving this message from BOINC 7.0.28 (x86):

2012-12-09 06:42:26 | SETI@home | Message from server: SETI@home Enhanced needs 32.00MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.

Use at most 1.01 GB
Leave at least 5.00 GB
Use at most 10% of disk space

My C: drive is a 320 GB drive, with 26 GB free.
I am also connected with Einstein@Home, and am receiving the same message there.

Why am I getting this message, and how can I return to processing work units?
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Use at most 10% of disk space

My C: drive is a 320 GB drive, with 26 GB free.

Thanks, but I changed the settings to the following:
"Use at most 1.00 GB"
--I'm using under 0.030 GB (sum of 3 BOINC directories, 0.77 MB, 15.4 MB, and 7.4 MB. I have no tasks downloaded.)
"Leave at least 5 GB free"
-there is 56 GB free
"Use at most 5% of total disk space"
--there is 17% free (56 free out of 320 GB), so even if the last item above means leave 5% of the disk free, I should be within that constraint, yet I still get this message:

2012-12-09 14:14:27 | SETI@home | Message from server: SETI@home Enhanced needs 32.00MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.

Depends on where you actually set the preferences. If here at Seti, but you've (once) set local preferences, then you can continue to change the web-preferences till your fingers see green, but the local preferences continue to be used by BOINC.

It's because the local preferences override all the same web-preferences. Disk settings can be set in local and in web-preferences, thus when you set local to be used once, they'll continue to override the newly set web-preferences.

Now, with all that out of the way, to see if you're using local prefs, either check your start-up messages, there should be a line stating "Reading preferences override file". or your BOINC Data directory, there should be a global_prefs_override.xml file there.
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Jord

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I uninstalled BOINC and reinstalled it, then it started working again. Thanks for your help!
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