Downloads & Zip?

[Jim_S]

The other day I tried to download the new SSE app for each of my boxes.
The first day when I tried to get the right app for my boxes all I got was 7Z.
I tried again this morning and on one box it got the right app and it is running fine!
Then I tried on my other boxes and never got the app again, Only 7Zip.
What the devil am I doing wrong?
It did the same thing when I tried to download SSE2 app for my X2 box
Hellllp!.

Jim Scott


<EDIT,  I already have 7Zip on all of my boxes.  /EDIT>

[Josef W. Segur]

The other day I tried to download the new SSE app for each of my boxes.
The first day when I tried to get the right app for my boxes all I got was 7Z.
I tried again this morning and on one box it got the right app and it is running fine!
Then I tried on my other boxes and never got the app again, Only 7Zip.
What the devil am I doing wrong?
It did the same thing when I tried to download SSE2 app for my X2 box
Hellllp!.

Jim Scott


<EDIT,  I already have 7Zip on all of my boxes.  /EDIT>

All the downloads are 7Zip archives; files with the .7z extension. You may have configured the 7Zip application to automatically open those when download completes on one box, I'm not sure how to do that for the others. But if you have the download saved someplace double-clicking it will probably open it with the 7Zip program and allow you to copy the files. If not, the system should ask you what program you want to use to open the file and you'll need to tell it to open with 7Zip.
                                                             Joe

[Jim_S]

Did that. All that gets unpacked is 7ZIP.
I've got it in 3 places now. No app info or anything but 7Z.

Jim_S

[Youth]

hi Jim_S,

Are you sure you have 7-zip installed?
You may want to go http://www.7-zip.org/ to get the latest 7-zip installer (so far 4.42) and get it installed on your computer, then you can use it to unpack those .7z file.

BTW, the lasteest WinRAR should be able to unpack .7z also.

YG

[ajs]

Hi Jim_S

It sounds to me like you're trying to open the 7zip installer file rather than the chicken download 

what's the filename of the file you're trying to open?

[Jim_S]

he name of the file that I downloaded to this box is,

KWSN-2.4-Windows32-SSE2-AMD.7z

and when I try to open it, it only opens a new copy of 7-Zip into any folder that I create.

[ajs]

that sounds right then 

if you right click on that file, do you get a 7-Zip option in the menu?

I normally right click then select 7-Zip/Extract Here

Does the same thing happen if you try that?

[Garry W]

after you've gotten to the extract here point.  Think for just a second and then extract to Boinc/projects/setiathome.  At least I think that is what I did to get it going correctly.

Then when it is all running again, check your task manager, you should see KWSN 2.4 running.

[Jim_S]

Tried again. Now I have two 7-zip folders in the SAH folder and 2.2b running in the Task Manager.
{EDIT- The way i got it to install on one of my old machines was to stop getting any new work until it ran dry. Then I uninstalled BOINC and deleted the BOINC folders.
Then I reinstalled 5.10.13. Reatached everything. then I did the 2.4 upgrade again and it took. Should I try that again? /EDIT}

[ajs]

{EDIT- The way i got it to install on one of my old machines was to stop getting any new work until it ran dry.

That seems a reasonable thing to do

Then I uninstalled BOINC and deleted the BOINC folders.
Then I reinstalled 5.10.13. Reatached everything. then I did the 2.4 upgrade again and it took. Should I try that again? /EDIT}

that lot seems a tad like overkill.
If you've run dry of WUs there should be no need to start deleting folders.

Your main problem though is that 7-Zip doesn't seem to be working correctly on your system.
How about downloading all versions of chicken that your machines require onto 1 machine.
Unzip them all with a "right click/7-Zip/Extract Here" and then copy the resulting folders to the respective machines.
Then copy the Files To install into the seti folder on each machine
Hows that sound?

[Jim_S]

@ajs, Actually I only deleted the SAH folder , I misworded that statement.
However your Idea sounds good to me. The thing is 2.4 wouldn't install as long as there was any 2.2b reference.
Also the old boxes all have PRO OSes and the new one has XP home.and it has confused me MANY times in the way it handles things.
Thanks MUCH,

Jim_S

[Jim_S]

Well in about 33Minutes I'll TRY me sperment  .
Will post back if it werks.

[Jim_S]

Well it wouldn't install the optimized app by opening through the open command or from a download.
Just got another copy of 7-zip in the SAH folder.
At least it's running 5.27s with the stock app.
I gotta headache and give-up for now.

[ajs]

Hi Jim

Exactly how are you trying to extract the files?

As a last resort, do you have any remote access to your system so that someone could get in and see whats happening with it?

[Jim_S]

@ajs, still no success obviously.  It could be arranged but first, could someone tell me the size of the generic SSE and AMD SSE2 files, as I think from the attacks I have been receiving lately , that one time my hardware firewall let the whole file through and hasn"t since or could someone burn the AMD files to disc for me and I would pay shipping, handling and replacing the disc? 

I have all my systems as stand alones and not networked.  

Thanks Very Much,

Jim Scott

PS:  I am getting real desperate here.