I\'ve now discovered why I have had resets - switching off PC rather than closing gracefully. This has left units that were running. Is there any way of completing them (or at least the one that was doing best). I have the folder with the restart.day.gz, yabsd.out.gz and sulphur*.xml files.

Sorry if this has been asked before but couldn\'t find it.

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Sadly, there is no way of completing a failed workunit without a backup. It is a good point about closing down gracefully - it might account for some of the problems that newcomers to the BBC experiment have been experiencing.

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Sadly this happened tome whilst 9% into a work unit doing the BBC project... and i atually request it to shutdown gracefully.... I\'m now running the climatepredection.net project, and as a service... so lets hope that shuts down gracefully when i shutdown the computer..

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If you are concerned about shutdown the BOINC-service safely when shutting down Windows, then you could force Windows to close this service explicitly when shutting down Windows via a script.

The following instruction how to do this was found here.

*open up notepad and enter the following



net stop boinc




• then save it to your desktop with the file name \"Stop BOINC.bat\" (the bat extension is essential)
  
  
• close notepad
  
  
• run
  
  

  gpedit.msc

  
  
  (from a command prompt, or by clicking start, run, entering it, then clicking ok)
  
  
• navigate to \"Local Computer Policy\\Computer Configuration\\Windows Settings\\Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)\"
  
  
• open up the \"shutdown\" one (in the panel on the right)
  
  
• click \"show files\"
  
  
• move the \"stop boinc.bat\" file from you desktop (the one you made earlier) to this folder (you may need to minimise the \"group policy\" window
  
  
• close the window (that opened from clicking \"show files\") showing the folder where you\'ve just moved \"stop boinc.bat\" to (the window title should be \"shutdown\")
  
  
• back in the \"shutdown properties\" box (opened from group policy) click \"add\"
  
  
• click browse
  
  
• the contents of the \"shutdown\" folder should be displayed, add the \"stop boinc.bat\" file that you moved into that folder by clicking the file, then clicking \"open\"
  
  
• in the \"Add a script\" box click \"ok\"
  
  
• in the \"Shutdown properties\" box click \"ok\"
  
  
• exit \"group policy\"
  

now windows will stop boinc automatically everytime you shutdown/restart your computer, no need to worry about loosing anything now

NOTE: this only applies if you have BOINC installed as a service, if you have a single user or shared install then you\'ll have to come up with your own way of stopping boinc, although i *think* windows handles things if BOINC isn\'t running as a service (should exit when you log off)

I did this and it works really fine for me.

P.S.: This message board should have a preview function (for the BBCode tags)... :-/