I shutdown and restarted my machine without remembering to close BOINC (v 4.43). On restart the BOINC manager shows the climateprediction.net Project but there are no \"Work\" items. Before the shutdown one Work item was about 50% through, and one was scheduled.

Any way to get back my ongoing work?

I suspect not (unless you have a backup you can restore it from).

It terminated with "exit code -1073741502 (0xc0000142)", which is generated by Windows when applications fail to initialize properly. You lost two other models with the same error message yesterday and another one early this morning, all without any processing time.

It sounds like something may have been corrupted, and your best approach might be to do a project reset to force a download fresh versions of the application files.
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Thanks for your input on this, and if you'll have me then I'll even join your team !

As for BOINC: well, that'll teach me! But to be honest, I can't be the only one this has happened to, and it's a poor result all in all. How many teracycles of CPU have gone down the tubes I wonder.

I'd set BOINC so that it idles when "user is active", but that obviously isn't enough to close the application tidily.

Fatuous Question: what's the opposite of "bullet-proof"?
Answer: BOINC.

:-(

&gt; Thanks for your input on this, and if you'll have me then I'll even join your
&gt; team !
&gt;
&gt; As for BOINC: well, that'll teach me! But to be honest, I can't be the only
&gt; one this has happened to, and it's a poor result all in all. How many
&gt; teracycles of CPU have gone down the tubes I wonder.
&gt;
&gt; I'd set BOINC so that it idles when "user is active", but that obviously isn't
&gt; enough to close the application tidily.
&gt;
&gt; Fatuous Question: what's the opposite of "bullet-proof"?
&gt; Answer: BOINC.
&gt;
&gt; :-(
&gt;
I sort of appreciate and echo your sentiments, however, we chose to get involved in this, to commit our time(not much, really) and resources(what else were you doing with it?), so we really can't complain too much.

If there was some sort of concrete reward for our contribution, then you would definately have a point. But there isn't (unless I missed something?), so maybe we should just try to improve the engine.

BTW, I just lost a couple of weeks worth of work on one machine. Now I have to wait a bit longer to get to my target ranking in the stats. :-(

My two Eurocents worth.