Download reaches 100% then nothing happens, even when I retry the download nothing happens. I have 12 de_separation** downloads that have been stuck in downloading status for several days now and I'm guessing it's related to the stars-9.txt issue.

BOINC client is 7.0.28 x64 for Win7 and I ran it straight from install. All other projects run fine except Milkyway. Help please.

1. Suspend network activity in BOINC.

2. Download the file with your web browser from here (right click, save as). If you are using a download manager, which can check MD5, it's "e21a13084001a55b2bf1abd9c2ed7e46".

3. Copy the file to your milkyway directory (overwrite the existing one) and resume network activity in BOINC.

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Downloads have completed. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

Issue has recurred with stars-15.txt and stars-16-sansSgr.txt. Can these be downloaded via browser as well?

Sure.

stars-15.txt MD5: a80d74dc38278c6d5e5ebccdd5ca2260

stars-16-sansSgr.txt MD5: 0063bad4d617191df662d17d6c7cbf5b

The URLs and checksums are in your client_state.xml, but you might also want find out why it happens for you and try to fix it.

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Could this problem be solved be a detach & re-attatch?

Could this problem be solved be a detach & re-attatch?

Don't think so... I'd start with excluding the BOINC data directory from antivirus scanning and if that does not help reinstall BOINC to make sure file access rights are properly set.

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I'm not that familiar with the BOINC platform. Where do I start checking for the cause?

The ones downloaded by BOINC are 5 kilobytes short. Same thing happened in the past. Instead of downloading the remaining bytes, it either restarts the download, or size downloaded goes over the file size (but progress remains at 100%).

stars-15.txt is 3,293,981 bytes instead of 3,298,981 bytes
stars-16-sansSgr is 2,870,829 bytes instead of 2,875,829 bytes[/img]

I'm not that familiar with the BOINC platform. Where do I start checking for the cause?

Well, that's not easy to say... you basically have to guess, what it might be and try if it helps. Like I posted above, at first I'd disable antivirus scanning for BOINC data directory.

stars-15.txt is 3,293,981 bytes instead of 3,298,981 bytes
stars-16-sansSgr is 2,870,829 bytes instead of 2,875,829 bytes

There I'd look what data is missing in that file, i.e. compare it with the good version. That might give a hint. Also check for differences in the downloaded part.

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Sorry, I already overwrote the files. Will check when issue recurs.

Sorry, I already overwrote the files. Will check when issue recurs.

In the meantime you can disable the antivirus scanning for BOINC data directory, maybe it will than not happen anymore.

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I am having the same problem now with the two newer stars.txt files (16 etc.)

You can find the URLs of those files in your client_state.xml. Or you post the exact filenames, than I can tell you where to get them.

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The problem recurred with stars-10-sansSgr.txt, again it's short by 5KB. Download stopped at first "column" of line 106961. Below is the missing data. It's all just text/numbers so I see no reason why it would always stop download at 5KB before end of file.

As before, I had to manually download the file using a download manager. Although first download was invalid because file returned had "nulls" starting at line 80444. Maybe it's a network issue (signal noise) at source?

56.278057 4.121405
339.163971 56.141899 5.071003
339.285645 56.235104 15.859034
339.200989 56.149963 31.254990
339.428802 56.035686 11.872714
339.629608 56.133419 12.049192
339.468048 56.189541 10.523405
339.556885 56.161774 17.138647
339.461945 56.052036 17.227665
339.551605 56.122646 16.914660
339.459839 56.031551 29.401730
339.869385 56.072350 21.073780
339.961639 56.043499 25.158001
339.975250 55.929108 34.019787
340.592255 55.812668 27.681885
340.624542 55.765621 14.429648
340.602173 55.698448 9.435613
340.792358 55.695610 11.369617
340.937469 55.652538 9.633647
341.039062 55.673622 15.775881
340.950012 55.699596 22.055529
340.893524 55.702385 36.233002
341.045715 55.549530 8.371330
341.151978 55.533211 9.201830
341.224640 55.572128 20.090082
341.259338 55.458302 6.195934
341.159760 55.408852 21.595675
341.369324 55.495235 23.455750
341.299042 55.478050 23.943937
341.448700 55.375366 15.208458
341.690582 55.430027 17.269268
341.676392 55.309834 13.157853
341.871185 55.277241 7.684265
341.886536 55.337944 9.680555
342.115601 55.252213 20.977930
342.313812 55.080975 24.926163
342.449249 55.125778 10.020676
342.395172 55.074219 17.084747
342.309998 55.056236 24.482508
342.420044 54.932693 23.740505
343.104889 54.725845 15.974879
343.200989 54.764534 10.082380
343.292938 54.688004 13.572245
343.201477 54.708675 20.684280
343.208893 54.713390 22.878393
343.468903 54.634941 12.371258
343.478638 54.590481 17.320341
343.625092 54.535614 10.192321
343.851624 54.328289 14.368181
343.861847 54.472103 16.624561
344.037323 54.477352 20.119097
344.113708 54.294487 23.026392
344.140930 54.208218 34.594612
344.408142 54.326748 21.198893
344.456085 54.203087 12.520335
344.662323 54.201664 14.037686
344.376923 54.181927 15.969674
344.550995 54.135925 18.358000
344.342194 54.119263 16.904484
344.740051 54.144749 11.012509
344.541870 54.030972 12.829027
344.952209 53.998085 19.320066
344.940857 53.959015 25.176216
345.202972 53.926563 8.494234
345.207092 53.898113 18.417469
345.245026 53.771305 12.968565
345.358521 53.864578 29.044197
345.468506 53.850269 22.830374
345.504089 53.809368 12.282850
345.688812 53.664181 8.837396
345.767609 53.704628 13.978380
345.739380 53.580570 10.425074
345.810089 53.683105 17.527147
345.917725 53.628002 11.965441
345.921112 53.567844 8.508728
345.804932 53.504646 19.884327
346.054352 53.412212 14.316631
346.220062 53.522919 35.621563
346.428925 53.247841 13.078658
346.707062 53.258221 9.873040
346.794647 53.240269 22.640600
346.812592 53.142319 23.434643
346.954803 52.950222 6.761740
347.132080 53.070328 10.809310
347.166504 52.969334 12.190030
347.179108 53.033150 19.556314
347.316559 52.792889 15.211852
347.600647 52.705002 16.479784
347.706909 52.607346 13.249137
347.799896 52.536659 31.197418
347.770233 52.620991 15.934687
348.145172 52.421944 15.310404
348.159607 52.423225 11.424707
348.474243 52.423950 25.733574
348.671814 52.203346 11.145263
348.669434 52.217762 14.509018
348.758301 52.307674 23.714808
348.820312 52.082809 15.172913
348.766174 52.139576 33.296291
348.851013 52.121876 22.343372
349.024323 52.162922 8.919311
349.188171 52.024300 19.886826
349.316864 52.024097 26.799358
349.299957 51.834995 15.963321
349.331390 51.823174 12.536633
349.275940 51.859436 22.262621
349.532104 51.683304 15.482900
349.789978 51.638313 16.682400
349.816254 51.521519 6.021174
349.999420 51.654728 16.244820
349.845734 51.512070 37.720741
350.056030 51.396954 43.605320
350.267578 51.301479 7.590083
350.446289 51.306293 7.499821
350.730835 51.252411 5.730159
350.673401 51.225170 12.880843
350.761017 51.158585 13.443275
350.732635 51.025528 22.193933
350.907715 50.930801 21.077446
351.005127 50.955765 20.944403
350.898773 50.936836 23.364534
351.246582 50.978794 35.357033
351.417511 50.770809 10.079591
351.369690 50.659595 9.832124
351.397766 50.652149 18.527624
351.447052 50.636284 12.133510
352.154510 50.356808 9.282164
352.386993 50.226101 20.101574
352.336731 50.207760 22.188261
352.353546 50.211220 30.559437
352.624237 50.184162 14.762329
352.569580 50.003105 11.785426
352.894135 49.956905 19.694149
352.821869 50.016712 22.156536
352.956635 49.745712 9.295749
353.030548 49.784973 15.576256
353.130341 49.708458 14.989012
353.193665 49.695702 17.981730
353.320770 49.607750 19.935375
353.299805 49.530277 9.811263
353.627472 49.341465 14.299815
354.243500 49.116169 8.277200
354.581787 48.777241 16.706493
354.737000 48.672005 23.488264
355.256348 48.526749 7.635553
355.211975 48.503555 19.940243
355.137787 48.463268 24.646900
355.141937 48.416161 7.787786
355.840607 48.143234 14.577911
355.813751 47.977657 6.505785
355.965424 47.818474 13.333040
356.230438 47.636307 15.072107
356.752075 47.498894 23.355999
356.922241 47.333160 23.920834
357.800659 46.779140 17.275049
357.656799 46.657509 21.841438
1.292020 43.911404 45.440331
1.350973 43.852005 34.601875
1.543588 43.717327 16.202040
2.021751 43.405830 4.972497
2.204915 43.139576 11.886582
2.925755 42.390266 10.334504
3.410576 42.093708 14.567262

No idea why it would stop just before the end of the file. Normally, if the connection is lost, BOINC should simply try again to finish the file. The only thing I had so far was BOINC writing messages into the downloaded files instead of stdoutdae.txt, which messed them up of course. That's why I asked you to check, if something is different inside those files. But if they are just shorter... no idea.

Have you tried to exclude the BOINC data directory from antivirus scanning?

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Again it's stalled downloading, at twice the actual file size in each case, on my 64-Bit version.
But this time on THREE stars files.
stars-14-sansSgr.txt
stars-12-sansSgr.txt
stars-10-sansSgr.txt
Why is this still happening!
Just not getting any Milkyway work done... It's LHC/SETI gain tho' ;-)

As I wrote before, first thing to try is to exclude BOINC data directory from antivirus scanning and see if that helps.

If not, next thing I'd try is reinstalling BOINC (just install it over the old installation). You can either upgrade in the same time to newer version or simply install the one you are using again. Just as you like, only don't use any beta versions.

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