Is there, or could there be an option to let all the current Boinc jobs calculate, upload and finish, and then close the program. I ask because there are times I have to shutdown for a week, and I often wonder if the work being done when I restart is a complete waste, or gets done by someone else's computer and mine gets deleted when uploading because I was to late to the party.

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Is there, or could there be an option to let all the current Boinc jobs calculate, upload and finish, and then close the program. I ask because there are times I have to shutdown for a week, and I often wonder if the work being done when I restart is a complete waste, or gets done by someone else's computer and mine gets deleted when uploading because I was to late to the party.

sadly, I am unaware of any way to do that using the Boinc Manager. However, you can set "no new work" on all projects and, using app on smart phone such as splashtop, log in, see if they are done, and shut down the system.

I always wanted a function like that. The problem with selecting "no new work" is I have to remember which projects need to be "allowed" new work out of several dozen possible projects listed, when I power the system back up.

The client has an exit_when_done config option you can put into cc_config. See BOINC Client configuration

I haven’t tried it, but would assume you set no new tasks and add this into cc_config and re-read config files. Once it’s completed all work it should exit.

Normally I set no new tasks and once it’s done the machine just goes idle, no need to power it off and on all the time. I have a number of machines that process work overnight (due to it being cooler) this way.

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MarkJ