Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#1337 new Defect

Default local preferences set "Use at most" to zero gigabytes

Reported by: Ageless Owned by: romw
Priority: Blocker Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Manager Version: 7.2.39
Keywords: preferences Cc:

Description

Yesterday I installed BOINC clean on a system that never had a BOINC on it before. I used 7.2.39 - 64bit, that I had downloaded from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

I was testing something about the screen saver flickering, but during my travels in BOINC, I found that the default value for Use at most is set to 0.00GB of disk space. See the attached image.

This will mean that project servers will refuse to send work to these systems, until that value has been adjusted to something normal.

Do know that a lot of people will look in BOINC's local preferences, and exit out through the OK button, not knowing that this will immediately use the new local preferences, overriding their web preferences.

Since the Use at most X GB disk space value is a required one, can we make sure that it can never be zero? Or when it's read as being zero, that we use the value from the global_prefs.xml file? Or set it by default to 5Gb for PCs and Macs (NOT on Android!).

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bad_defaults.png (356.5 KB) - added by Ageless 10 years ago.
Shows default, never set before, local advanced preferences values

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Change History (2)

Changed 10 years ago by Ageless

Attachment: bad_defaults.png added

Shows default, never set before, local advanced preferences values

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by Ageless

Component: UndeterminedManager
Owner: set to romw
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