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Thread: Failure on downoalding wcg_BOINC_6.10.58_w... exe file ??? |
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aragorn34
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Hello
(sorry if my English writing is poor), I failed three times on 2 different computers to download the main program : wcg_boinc_ etc. .exe I'm using a Toshiba PORTEGE A600 PC with Windows XP Professional OS. Inactivation of the firewall did not succeed. What can I do? Thanks Michel / Aragorn34 Saint Drezery, France MLehmann.pro@gmail.com |
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mikey
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Hello (sorry if my English writing is poor), I failed three times on 2 different computers to download the main program : wcg_boinc_ etc. .exe I'm using a Toshiba PORTEGE A600 PC with Windows XP Professional OS. Inactivation of the firewall did not succeed. What can I do? Thanks Michel / Aragorn34 Saint Drezery, France MLehmann.pro@gmail.com While the Boinc program from WCG is the only WCG CERTIFIED version you can in fact download Boinc from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and it will work just fine. They are the writers of the Boinc program and the Boinc Projects just use it. Any version of Boinc will work with the exception of the newest development 7.*.* versions and the really really old versions.   |
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Former Member
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Hi Micheal,
----------------------------------------Are you explicitly saving the file to disk first? If you select to run it straight from the server it tends to fail. So, hit download again on the My Grid page, select the platform if not already automatically chosen, then Save File, for instance your desktop [a place you have permission to]. Once download, chose the file on the desktop and launch it. If it still fails, empty out the temp directory [not it's subdirectories] and try again. Let us know. --//-- edit: Scary, just looked in my C:\Windows\Temp and there was 0.5 Gig in old stuff. Time to open the disk janitor. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 16, 2011 2:33:43 PM] |
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TPCBF
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edit: Scary, just looked in my C:\Windows\Temp and there was 0.5 Gig in old stuff. Time to open the disk janitor. That's not much. Check in your <User folder>\Local settings\Temp...  Ralf  |
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Former Member
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That's an area which has always been inaccessible via File Explorer [W7 and with my full permissions], but if starting a Cmd session as admin one can get there and find... also some 0.5 Gig. Not so bad, and all with rather current timestamps. Think the Janitor has been cleaning those in past, which did find another 4.5Gig today in temp files... somewhere in a dark nook. :D Will not be surprised that next time when trying upgrading/downgrading BOINC I'll be told by the installer that it cant find the boinc.msi file
 Now the waiting on aragorn34 to come back and tell us. Hopefully he's not given up. --//-- |
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mikey
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That's an area which has always been inaccessible via File Explorer [W7 and with my full permissions], but if starting a Cmd session as admin one can get there and find... also some 0.5 Gig. Not so bad, and all with rather current timestamps. Think the Janitor has been cleaning those in past, which did find another 4.5Gig today in temp files... somewhere in a dark nook. :D Will not be surprised that next time when trying upgrading/downgrading BOINC I'll be told by the installer that it cant find the boinc.msi file Now the waiting on aragorn34 to come back and tell us. Hopefully he's not given up. --//-- Try this: C:\Users\mike\AppData\Local\Temp You MUST go into Windows Explorer and then press the alt key and then go to Tools, Folder Options and UN check the hidden OS files and folders. Obviously the "mike" above will be different for you, that is the user name on this pc. Also if you don't click on Tools soon enough you will have ot press the alt key again, it times out. I have Win7 Ultimate. |
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Former Member
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Regrettably, it is truly locked in FE [cant even take ownership as admin]. The hidden OS files / folders to show is one of the first things I do together with showing common extends of a clean install. The Local settings folder has a little shortcut glyph suggesting it's a symbolic link to some other location. Properties does only show the path that is seen in FE.
Anyway, by working through the old cmd window got there. 5GB leaner in files now with the standard W7 redundant file cleaner. Cleaning browser cache and download history might also do the trick for aragorn34 so I seem to recollect. I'm on Firefox for more than 1 reason. The last patch day proofed it again. IE is too deep seated in the OS even now with W7, then being forced to boot after it got a security fix. --//-- |
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mikey
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Regrettably, it is truly locked in FE [cant even take ownership as admin]. The hidden OS files / folders to show is one of the first things I do together with showing common extends of a clean install. The Local settings folder has a little shortcut glyph suggesting it's a symbolic link to some other location. Properties does only show the path that is seen in FE. Anyway, by working through the old cmd window got there. 5GB leaner in files now with the standard W7 redundant file cleaner. Cleaning browser cache and download history might also do the trick for aragorn34 so I seem to recollect. I'm on Firefox for more than 1 reason. The last patch day proofed it again. IE is too deep seated in the OS even now with W7, then being forced to boot after it got a security fix. --//-- I am sorry it didn't work the way I suggested but I AM glad you did get it to work! |
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