I've made my defaults (on the web site) to have Boinc run after 5 mins. of inactivity. It appears that Boinc Menubar overrides these settings since either Boinc is 'Start' or 'Stop' and never starts after 5 mins. of inactivity. (I've edited my web prefs and hit 'Update' and restarted Menubar)

How do I get Menubar to wait for 5 mins. of inactivity to begin processing?

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same here, too: Mac OS X 10.3.8, BOINC client 4.19 and 4.25 (I've tried both) and BOINC Menubar 4.25a (0.2b).

My defaults are to run after 15 min. of inactivity, but BOINC Menubar seems to ignore this. I have updated my preferences via the Web interface multiple times, without luck. Even the 'global_prefs.xml' file which is located under ~user/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ remains untouched.

Update: It seems to me that the problem is not BOINC Menubar, it's the client: Even when starting from the command-line, the clients starts processing immediately...

> My defaults are to run after 15 min. of inactivity, but BOINC Menubar seems to
> ignore this. I have updated my preferences via the Web interface multiple
> times, without luck. Even the 'global_prefs.xml' file which is located under
> ~user/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ remains untouched.

In other words... Boinc for the Mac s**ks !

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Mac client simply works on lowest priority meaning it's stopped automatically when other tasks require CPU time. Thus idle settings are not applicable - they're for Windows client.

Ok, thanks for your answer. But I would like to decide when the client should start its work and when not. I don't like this 'It-must-running-all-the-time' behavior. So, when there's no other solution I'll remove it.