My mate has just got himself a Mac running Darwin 9.8.0.The problem he has is he d/loaded and installed the recomended Mac Boinc app' and that went fine, but when it comes to d/loading tasks they all error out.He's connecting to the web via an O2 Dongle, signal strenth always preety excellent. Can anybody suggest why, and a possible sollution, thanks in advance.Digger01.

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Can't he post himself, or can you give a link to his account so we can see what kind of errors he gets?

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Sorry, check out my account, his Mac should be the last computer listed...Thanks, Digger.

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It's download errors, alright.

<message>
app_version download error: couldn't get input files:
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>seti_603.jpg</file_name>
<error_code>-200</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>

Go to your accounts->General computing preferences, edit them and set Skip image file verification? to Yes. Save changes to the web site, open BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Projects tab->Select Seti->Click Update.

Then again... he does seem to have a couple that came in without download error, so it may have had to do with the download server problems that Seti had over the weekend. Still, if it starts doing download errors again, use that option.

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Cheers, I'll pass the meesage on, let you know later if that sorts it out. Digger.

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No luck mate,any more ideas much appreciated...as an aside I notice you run Windows (The Dark Side),and so do I,so why is the Jedi Light Side ie Mac called the Light/Jedi side?...?coz it's so damn difficult to damn config,will persevere and hopefully get him up and crunching...catch you later...Digger.

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Which BOINC version is he running? Not one of the BOINC 6 versions, I don't think as that needs OSX 10.3.9 as minimum. (But then, with those numbers, what is Darwin 9.8.0?)

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Looks like he is running 6.10.17 from what I saw.

Darwin 9.8.0 is actually OS X 10.5.8 if I remember correctly.

Another possibility is have him try the optimized apps and see if those work correctly.

http://www.arkayn.us/seti/OSX_V8_AP5_CORE2DUO.zip

I supposed I could be referred to as the grey side as I run both.

http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/seti_603.jpg

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