I run BOINC on a laptop i travel with. Everytime I shut it down, the programs restart. This means no progress, is there a way to save work before shutdown?

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What do you shut down, BOINC or your laptop?
-> If BOINC, how do you shut down BOINC?

What if you go this way?
BOINC Manager->Tools->Display and network options->Check "Enable Manager exit dialog?"->OK.
BOINC Manager->File->Exit->Check "Shut down running science apps on Manager exit"->OK.

BOINC consists of a client and the manager, two parts. Just shutting down BOINC Manager will not necessarily close down the underlying client. So follow the method above and I'm sure everything will shut down.

What happened here is that you probably went BOINC Manager->File->Exit once and just checked "Remember this decision and do not show this dialog", then went OK. That way, the next time you close down BOINC Manager, BOINC and the science applications stay running.

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Do the applications of the projects you run write checkpoints? If yes, Ageless's method will work. Otherwise, you should look for projects that do checkpointing to run on your laptop.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Good catch, Gundolf. :-)

@S Jackson, applications that checkpoint write a progress report to disk. Not all project applications write checkpoints, while of those that do, there's a lot of difference in when they write their progress.

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