I got the following notification today:

SETI@home: Notice from server
SETI@home v7 needs 15.31MB more disk space. You currently have 16.69 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.
7/14/2015 9:14:32 PM

I looked in BOINC on the "Properties" button, it currently says SETI is using 25MB of space, but I couldn't find any setting where you can control the amount of disk space it can use, so I thought it must be project specific on the web.

So, I went to the "Preferences" button to open the web page for SETI.
I currently have the following under the "Disk" section:

Use no more than 10 GB
Leave at least 1 GB free
Use no more than 50% of total

So, I'm allowing 10 GIGAbytes, it's only using 25 MEGAbytes but saying it needs 32 more MEGAbytes.

What is going on? How to I give it what it wants?

Oh, BTW, I checked my hard drive, and I currently have 130 GB free on a 250 GB hard drive, so that's it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Can you please post the BOINC start up messages (CTRL+SHIFT+E to open the Event Log, scroll all the way up, click first line normally saying cc_config.xml not found - using defaults, or Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64; hold SHIFT and then click on the line Not using a proxy; click the "Copy selected" button to copy all selected lines and paste (CTRL+V or right-click->paste) them in an answer window here).

That will give us a lot of information to be able to help you out.

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16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 970 (driver version 353.30, CUDA version 7.5, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 3066MB available, 4045 GFLOPS peak)
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 970 (driver version 353.30, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 4096MB, 3066MB available, 4045 GFLOPS peak)
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] OpenCL: Intel GPU 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (driver version 10.18.14.4170, device version OpenCL 1.2, 1400MB, 1400MB available, 56 GFLOPS peak)
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Intel(R) Corporation, driver version 4.2.0.148, device version OpenCL 1.2 (Build 148))
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3]
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx tm2 pbe fsgsbase bmi1 hle smep bmi2
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Professional x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00)
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Memory: 15.86 GB physical, 18.24 GB virtual
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Disk: 238.13 GB total, 144.31 GB free
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Local time is UTC -4 hours
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [SETI@home] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Reading preferences override file
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Preferences:
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    max memory usage when active: 8122.68MB
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    max memory usage when idle: 14620.82MB
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    max disk usage: 1.00GB
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    don't compute while active
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    don't use GPU while active
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Not using a proxy
16-Jul-2015 14:40:14 Initialization completed
16-Jul-2015 14:40:14 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
16-Jul-2015 14:40:14 [---] Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
16-Jul-2015 14:40:14 [---] Suspending network activity - computer is in use
16-Jul-2015 14:40:45 [---] Benchmark results:
16-Jul-2015 14:40:45 [---]    Number of CPUs: 8
16-Jul-2015 14:40:45 [---]    5003 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
16-Jul-2015 14:40:45 [---]    18448 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
16-Jul-2015 15:06:34 [---] Resuming network activity
16-Jul-2015 15:06:34 [SETI@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
16-Jul-2015 15:06:34 [SETI@home] Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU and Intel GPU
16-Jul-2015 15:06:38 [SETI@home] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
16-Jul-2015 15:06:38 [SETI@home] No tasks sent
16-Jul-2015 15:06:38 [SETI@home] SETI@home v7 needs 32.00MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.
16-Jul-2015 15:06:38 [SETI@home] AstroPulse v7 needs 60.00MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 60.00 MB.

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16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Reading preferences override file
16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---] Preferences:

16-Jul-2015 14:40:13 [---]    max disk usage: 1.00GB

All right, the above excerpt from your start up log shows that you are using local preferences which override the web preferences, and that you set there to use a maximum of 1GB for BOINC to use as disk space.

You'll have to check what the other settings for disk space are here.
Open BOINC Manager -> (Tools, Advanced view) -> Tools, Computing preferences... -> Disk and memory usage

Use at most X Gigabytes disk space: Sets the maximum disk space BOINC is allowed to use.
Leave at least X Gigabytes disk space free: Minimum space BOINC should leave free on the disk or partition.
Use at most X % of total disk space: Sets the maximum amount of total space that BOINC is allowed to use.
The first we know, you set this to 1GB, but what of the rest of them?

If you do not want to use the local preferences, but the web preferences instead, make sure you clear the local preferences.

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Thanks for your help Ageless.
I don't remember ever changing local prefs (I know I set up prefs online for the projects).
But I have set the local app prefs to be unrestricted, and I am no longer getting that notification in the log, and everything seems to be using the proper allocations set on the web and running properly.
Much appreciated.

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