Woodles wrote:I have no experience with the MAC OS but could it be something to do with read/write privileges? The space is there and Boinc can see it but it's not allowed to use it? Can Boinc use encrypted drives?
Mark
Hi Mark & Will
I'm not a Mac user, but I know a little bit about them.
Firstly, MAC OS is very similar to Linux and hence when BOINC Manager is installed, the correct read/write privileges should be correctly set...and given that I am assuming that Wills issue is a recent problem and not due to it being a "new" installation, so, I would think that the Mac has been crunching OK until now, but this "problem" has cropped up since?
I think the encryption is "transparent" between the drive, the OS and BOINC Manager. However, if the HDD were removed and put onto a different platform, (either to boot another Mac machine, or used as a USB drive connected to anther machine) then the encryption would make the drive contents "nonsensical" and hence worthless.
Maybe Will can provide more info, in due course so we can help narrow down the issue?
Edit: Will seems to have 2 PCs running Darwin:
1) GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4980HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 70 Stepping 1]
(8 processors) + AMD AMD Radeon R9 M370X Compute Engine (2047MB) OpenCL: 1.2, INTEL Iris Pro (1536MB) OpenCL: 1.2 running Darwin
16.3.0
2) GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 10] (2 processors) (no GPU) running Darwin
11.4.2
BOINC Manager for both machines is 7.6.33.
My guess, is that it's the latter that might have the issue and might it be down to the much earlier version of Darwin?
regards
Tim