V7 Novice Mode: Pause, Finish or Quit Before Rebooting?

[Alan C. Lawhon]

I am currently crunching two WUs concurrently. The larger WU (which has been executing a little over two days) should finish in a little over an hour from now. Recently I downloaded and installed an iTunes update on my Windows XP machine - the same XP machine that is running FAH. The iTunes update wants me to reboot my machine for the update to take effect. I would like to delay rebooting until after this large WU has completed processing and has been successfully sent back in order to make sure I get credit for the points.

What is the best (safest) way to freeze (or stop) the V7 FAH client so that I can reboot after the large WU has finished? Should I click the "Pause" button, the "Finish" button or the "Quit" button - or does it even matter?

[Joe_H]

It usually does not matter, but the action of the buttons is different. Pause halts processing of the WU's, Quit causes FAHControl to exit. But, depending on how installed, quitting FAHControl does not necessarily stop the processing of WU's. What might be best is to press Finish, that control finishes the current work, uploads it and then stops folding. Downloading and processing of a new WU will wait until you start folding again by either rebooting your system or pressing the Fold button.

[Alan C. Lawhon]

Thanks Joe! I think "Finish" is the correct option. (I'll click "Finish" right now and restart the client immediately after I reboot.)

[bruce]

Rebooting at the wrong time has been known to cause the loss of credit so I understand your desire to be cautious. I, too, am cautious. Nevertheless, loss of a WU has become a pretty rare phenomenon as long as the OS does a normal shutdown. With an improper shutdown (e.g. -- a power failure) the chances of actual loss are higher but even that can recover the work a lot of the time, depending somewhat on the type of FileSystem your OS is using.