Boinc consistently gets my free space wrong.
It insists I have only 1.5 gigs free when I have 48 gigs of my 60 gig drive free.

On my linux machine, I have 150 gigs free out of 1.5 terabytes, but boinc insists I have only 4.5 gigs free.


In the "computers" section on the web page, it shows all my computers to be the same thing (the linux box).

Actually, I just realized that it's likely using the C: drive under windows, and /opt/BOINC in linux.

Is there any way to tell it to put its temporary files somewhere else?

In Windows at least, all the project temporary and work unit files are stored within the BOINC install directory and nested under that.

If you wanted to, you could exit BOINC, and drag and drop the entire BOINC directory to another drive. Then modify your icon to point to the new path and start 'er up again and it will run happily over on the new drive. I presume similar is possible under Linux.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

I have Boinc Manager 5.4.11 installed on my old machine. Here, I simply choose to start boinc.exe by doubleclicking the icon. To stop boinc, I just exit the application.
On my new machine however, with version 6.2.19, boinc.exe continues to run all the time even after I (believe ) disabled it through msconfig.exe. In short, I want boinc to start and stop exactly when I choose to do so. The preferences menu does not provide me with this option as far as I know. Can anyone help me on this issue? Thanks a lot

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Gil, exactly when do you want to start and stop it?? I mean do you want to set up a schedule? Or only when you aren't using your machine? Or are you saying you want to manually exit and start it??

In Windows, if you right click the BOINC icon in the tray, and select exit, then it will end the program and the applications that are in progress at the time. If you have the Manager window open, click the file menu, and exit to do the same. If you just click the red "X" in the upper right, you are only closing the window, not ending the program.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Thanks for the fast reply!
I want to manually control boinc. However, when I exit the application, windows task manager shows me that it STILL continues to run! That is what I don´t understand.
Mostly, when I use the machine, I want boinc to run. Sometimes and not regularly however, I run cpu intense applications and then I want boinc to stop.
In the preferences menu, under processor usage, I can mark/unmark the "while computer is in use" to control boinc but I find this procedure a bit annoying.
( If marked, is that the reason why boinc continues to run even after manual exit?)
Thanks in advance!

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I believe the reason it continues to run is that you are closing the window, rather then "exit"ing the program.

It sounds to me like you would like to hit a snooze button and have BOINC begin running again in about 15 minutes (at which time you could hit snooze again if your CPU intensive work is still going on), but then have it running all the rest of the time.

Lucky us! There is a snooze button. Right click the icon of the running BOINC Manager down in the tray. Click snooze.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

I ran some test and found this out: when one marks the "while computer is in use" preference, boinc runs even after one exits the application.
I can however live with the snooze command, thank you very much for your help.

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