Hi,
wonder if you can help me - after a crash (power failure), at the next launch the boinc client had no more the rosetta project in the "project tab list". In other words, I "lost" the project and the work unit in progress. Also, the "statistics" and "disk usage" are blank, as if I never had this project on my machine...

Might be a silly question, but since I haven'd done this in years by now, really can't remember how to reattach the project under my client (now it's like I just dowloaded the boinc client for the first time, with no history related).

Also, the client informs me I'm disconected - not sure what to do, my connection works just fine (it's permanent and with a large band).

Some help in reattaching the project would be much appreciated, with many thanks in advance :-)

PS - using a PowerBook G4, 1,67MzH, 2Gb RAM, OSX Panther (10.3.9)

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In the basic view, you click the "add project" button.
In the advanced view, you click the "tools" pulldown menu, and select "attach to project".

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Thanks for the quick answer, but I already tried that before posting here...
In basic view there's a big splash 'ERROR - Unable to connect to the core client'

When I try to press 'add project' button the next message appears:

BOINC Manager is not currently connected to a BOINC client. Please use the 'AdvancedSelect Computer...' menu option to connect up to a BOINC client.
To connect up to your local computer please use 'localhost' as the host name.

The same message appears in the advanced view, after clicking 'tools' and 'attach to project'...

My next move was to click on 'Select Computer' from 'Advanced' pulldown menu, but here I'm stuck: there are two fields, 'Host name' and 'password'.
First try for host was 'https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta' followed by this message:

Connection Failed. BOINC Manager is not able to connect to a BOINC client. Would you like to try to connect again?

Not sure though if that was the right choice, next try was with 'localhost', which seems to work, as on the bottom status bar the 'connected' appears in green; but that was the end of it: clicking 'tools' and 'attach to project' brought back the same message:

BOINC Manager is not currently connected to a BOINC client. Please use the 'AdvancedSelect Computer...' menu option to connect up to a BOINC client.
To connect up to your local computer please use 'localhost' as the host name.

That was followed by the 'disconnected' message on the bottom status bar of BOINC Manager...

I know I'm doing something wrong, as I have little knowledge in setting up these kind of things, but still wonder why the project and the work units vanished in the first place...
Anyway, thanks for your pacience...

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The "select computer" is for doing remote access to another client machine. Not a way to identify the server. So, that's not the place to be.

The BOINC Manager uses a local socket connection to interact with the crunching that is going on (the core client). And this local socket is what it is saying is not working. This connection just exists within your machine. It is not a reference to the internet. But firewall applications can still block such connections and prevent the application to establishing a "server". Assuming you have rebooted and still are not connected to the core client, it sounds like you probably have to find the entry in your firewall application that pertains to BOINC and allow it full local access.

If you are unfamiliar with your firewall application and since BOINC crashed so hard, it might be best to download the current recommended BOINC client. This will probably be recognized by your firewall software as a new application, and prompt you asking if you want to allow BOINC the access it requires to operate properly.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense