Unexpected screensaver locked up Mac

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1 Jul 2005 15:52:45 UTC

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I'm running Einstein and SETI on my Mac with BOINC Manager 4.43 and OSX 10.3.9. I have only joined Einstein since downloading and using BOINC Manager 4.43.

Earlier this afternoon, I came back to my Mac, which I'd left in BOINC screensaver mode but not showing any graphics because it was crunching Einstein, to find an Einstein screensaver there. This was a bit of a surprise as I understood it's not supposed to be working yet. The usual mouse clicking didn't wake up the Mac but just led to the "Spinning Beachball". I couldn't get rid of it by the usual escape keys so I had to reboot via the restart button.

Any ideas? I don't really want this to happen again, in case restarting messes up any files I might happen to have left open.

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Unexpected screensaver locked up Mac

1 Jul 2005 16:07:11 UTC

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I'm running Einstein and SETI on my Mac with BOINC Manager 4.43 and OSX 10.3.9. I have only joined Einstein since downloading and using BOINC Manager 4.43.

Earlier this afternoon, I came back to my Mac, which I'd left in BOINC screensaver mode but not showing any graphics because it was crunching Einstein, to find an Einstein screensaver there. This was a bit of a surprise as I understood it's not supposed to be working yet. The usual mouse clicking didn't wake up the Mac but just led to the "Spinning Beachball". I couldn't get rid of it by the usual escape keys so I had to reboot via the restart button.

Any ideas? I don't really want this to happen again, in case restarting messes up any files I might happen to have left open.

Suggest you try running the beta test version of the Mac app. You can find it by following the front page news item.

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RE: Suggest you try running

1 Jul 2005 16:17:12 UTC

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Suggest you try running the beta test version of the Mac app. You can find it by following the front page news item.

I'll try that then. Thanks.

I thought I saw something on these boards about it running faster too. Is that right? This Mac is a few years old and only has a 450mHz processor, so that would help with the rather tight deadlines.

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Have now installed it and it seems to be running nicely, having done the same 'show graphics' trick as I discovered for SETI to get it started. Cool screensaver! (The unexpected one I found earlier wasn't rotating.)