Thanks, now it makes sense why the behaviour was unique.... can sleep again

It's a pity the BOINC client network prefs do not allow to select a "do not connect" override option box. Then one could have entered e.g 18:00-21:00 e.g. to tell the client to stop the comms automatically during that maintenance period and select in the activity menu "network based on network preferences".

Wow,

I didn't expect to see a lot of people posting to this thread.

The end result is that the other computer completed its job, and my job was declared as an error. So another computer is now doing what my computer already did. :(

Below is the log in my status - not sure if it means anything.

I have looked through the responses to my initial post and see that the cause has been identified and that this problem should not reoccur. Thanks to everyone who responded.

JB

<core_client_version>5.10.30</core_client_version>
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World Community Grid HCC (projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/wcg_hcc1_img_5.20_windows_intelx86) version Failed to get VersionInfo size: 1812

INFO: No state to restore. Start from the beginning.
ERROR: Restoring checkpoint failed. Unable to restore state!
In ExtractGlcmFeatures: End of 0 iteration of outer loop.
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</stderr_txt>
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