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Message 626 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015, 14:26:30 UTC

This thread is to collect useful information in one place. Feel free to add your tips here.
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A bug has been found in the Windows version of BOINC which means that files larger than 4 GiB (2^32 bytes) are being left behind in slot directories, affecting us and other BOINC projects. Unfortunately, we do produce VM files that large, so we are interfering with these other projects. If you are active on this project, using Windows, please update your BOINC version to a patched version (see this message and thread).

"The files that are needed to apply the hotfix are

For 64-bit BOINC
boinc.080515.x64.zip

For 32-bit BOINC
boinc.080515.x86.zip

Simply extract the two files for your version from the .zip archive, and copy them to your BOINC program folder - you'll need to stop the BOINC client while you do this, and restart it again afterwards."

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Message 628 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015, 14:32:36 UTC

Firewall tips: If you suspect your firewall is restricting your participation in the project, check out this post by Yeti on ports he found it necessary to open up.
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Message 629 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015, 14:37:59 UTC - in response to Message 626.  

A bug has been found in the Windows version of BOINC which means that files larger than 4 GiB (2^32 bytes) are being left behind in slot directories, affecting us and other BOINC projects. Unfortunately, we do produce VM files that large, so we are interfering with these other projects. If you are active on this project, using Windows, please update your BOINC version to a patched version (see this message and thread).

"The files that are needed to apply the hotfix are

For 64-bit BOINC
boinc.080515.x64.zip

For 32-bit BOINC
boinc.080515.x86.zip

Simply extract the two files for your version from the .zip archive, and copy them to your BOINC program folder - you'll need to stop the BOINC client while you do this, and restart it again afterwards."


If patching is nothing for you, download the latest Alpha-Version 7.6.6; it seems to work fine and has the patch already integrated

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php
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Message 630 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015, 14:42:01 UTC - in response to Message 629.  

Patch links do not work (for me)does not exist
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Message 631 - Posted: 17 Aug 2015, 14:44:01 UTC - in response to Message 626.  

A bug has been found in the Windows version of BOINC which means that files larger than 4 GiB (2^32 bytes) are being left behind in slot directories, affecting us and other BOINC projects. Unfortunately, we do produce VM files that large, so we are interfering with these other projects. If you are active on this project, using Windows, please update your BOINC version to a patched version (see this message and thread).

The fix is implemented in newer BOINC-versions.
BOINC 7.6.1 and up have the fix.
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