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Apple have just released an update for my OS (to OS X 10.8.4).

I'm a bit cautious with OS updates at the best of times, and always make sure I've got a return path if anything goes belly-up. I was thinking of using the "Finish" option on the current slot, waiting until the client stopped, installing the update, then re-starting.

Any comments for/against/why bother?

That seems like a safe route. Sure, why not. Since the client would be between Work Units when you update, there's no possibility of losing a WU. Of course, it's entirely possible that the update won't touch the FAH installation at all, but there's no penalty for using the Finish option. So go ahead and use it I'd say.

Well, if we ignore the minor detail that, about 2 minutes before it finished, my internet connection went down for half an hour so that I could neither upload the completed WU or download the OS update, everything went swimmingly

(Peering issue, apparently)

One thing I didn't expect- after I rebooted, the client downloaded a new WU and re-started automatically. Not a problem, just unexpected.

Is this normal behaviour? I'd expected the "Finish" to cause it to stay paused, even through a re-boot, until I restarted it manually.

The client is expected to go back to work after a reboot. Finish is not a permanent setting. There's an open ticket suggesting that it might be changed in some future version but there are pros and cons. I think that most of the time it's used exactly the way you did .... complete the current WU so that whatever I do won't disrupt anything related to FAH... go back to folding after rebooting.

By default, after a reboot, FAH is going to start folding immediately. You can change that default, but then it's always going to NOT start folding after a reboot.

OK, thanks for that.

I can see the reasoning, and can't really imagine it ever causing me a problem, but as a general thing I think most people would expect that if they manually stopped a program then it would stay stopped until they re-started it again... reboot or no reboot!

Just my four penn'orth.

This has been the topic of many discussions including: #396
It's not so simple, though: #961