It's quite simple (when you know how).

Go to My Grid | Device Manager | Device Profiles and select the profile you're using (generally, Default). Then, select Custom Profile, and within there, there's an option under Workunit Cache Settings that allows you to specify how many extra days Cache you'd like. After you've selected the number you want (in this case, it looks like 5 - although see below), press Save. Then, on your next handshake between your computer and the WCG website, it'll bring down 5 extra days' work (if you want, you can manually force this update, by going into the BOINC mgr, selecting the Projects tab, highlighting the project 'World Community Grid' and then pressing the Update button).

One thing you may need to consider, is that (say), if your computer is currently available and crunching 24/7 and whilst you're away, it's only going to be available 12/7, then you'll only need to download half the amount of work to tide you over until you're able to access the internet again.

Another tip you I'd recommend, is, whilst you're away from the Internet, to go into the Activity tab within the BOINC mgr, and select 'Network Activity Suspended' - as otherwise, it'll be constantly attempting to connect to the WCG servers.

Edit : as all the WCG work has a 10 day deadline, I'd recommend that the highest you'd want to ever set this setting, is 9 - so as to allow for flexibility with timings etc.

It takes, as footnoted on the Device Profile pages, a Client-Server contact to transfer the profile change to the client. That can be forced by hitting the Update button in the projects tab of BOINC Manager, after selecting the WCG line

Happy Crunching :D

If you had local prefs before doing any changes, the web-preferences won't work, appart for setting resource-share and selection of sub-project.

Also, if set on the web, client won't know about them before next time connects to project...

Hmm, doing a quick test, it doesn't look like WCG shows this info, as it should do:
"Your preferences have been updated. Client-related preferences will take effect when your computer communicates with Project-name or you issue the "Update" command from the BOINC client."


BTW, looking on the other messages in this thread, it's also possible your settings is mis-configured...

BOINC includes two different settings for specifying cache-size, these are "Connected..." and "Additional..." (WCG calls it a little differently on their web-page). The actual cache-size is "Connected..." + "Additional...". (example 4 on one of them and 2 on the other gives a cache-size of 6 days).

If you know computer should be disconnected for example 4 days, it's important to set "Connected..." to 4 days or more, while "Additional..." should be fairly small (preferably less than a day).

This is always true, if you knows computer will be disconnected for N days, "Connected..." should always be N days or more, but max 10 days due to WCG having a 10-day deadline.

Setting a too low "Connected..." increases the chance of missed deadlines, since both client and scheduling-server makes decisions based on "Connected...", and these decisions will be wrong if "Connected..." is mis-configured.

Doh, overlooked JmBoullier 1st. line.


There are?
Oh, very easily-overlooked line. If you'll changed some preference at the top of the page, and not interested in any of the other preferences, you'll only look for the "Save"-botton, and the text just blends-in as part of the preferences you're not interested in.



The AND is a good idea, while the last line shouldn't be neccessary, but is for WCG since the profile-page is really screwed-up, by having:
Global preferences (Basic options)
Project-specific preferences (selections on sub-projects)
Global preferences (Processor usage)
Project-specific preferences (Graphics)
Global preferences (Disk, memory, network, cache)
Project-specific preference (Resource share)
Global preference (Switch between applications...)



Client will only override the global preferences, not the project-specific, so for WCG the line would be something like:
"These override ALL Device Profile settings except project weight, research science selections and Graphics".


Well, even a project makes customizations to the web-pages, removing warning-messages isn't a good idea, since this gives complaints from users about "it doesn't work". So, instead of the current: "Your profile has been successfully updated.", WCG should include a little more info...


Well, the Manager-preferences does include a warning-sign, and some text, but granted the text can be updated to be more clear. Also, going by #351, apparently the simple-view has some extra problems on it's own...