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Pat Ward

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Message 42116 - Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 18:52:05 UTC
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I've been running BOINC on various projects for several years now, and yesterday I tried to upgrade from 6.10.56 (I think) to 6.12.34. The install process appears to proceed and then it stops with a dialog asking me to insert a 'BOINC' disc (looking for BOINC.msi, I think).

Of course, I don't have any such disk, and I get an 'Error 1706' when I cancel. I tried to perform an uninstall, but I get the same message asking for a disk. I did a search for 'BOINC.msi' and found two instances. The installer tells me that neither is a valid installation package.

Now I can't run BOINC or install or uninstall it. Can someone please help?

Thanks, Pat

Forgot to specify, I'm running Windows XP, all the latest updates.
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Message 42117 - Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 19:04:09 UTC - in response to Message 42116.  

See this FAQ for all the information about this error and how to get around it.
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Message 42118 - Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 20:41:04 UTC - in response to Message 42117.  

Thanks for the pointer to the FAQ, Ageless. I had searched the FAQ but missed that. Everything is running now.

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