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There's a new client for the Intel Macs  http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic21314.html

I'll keep an eye on that thread.

The new client , version 6, is no improvement, say the early reviews.

**IMPORTANT**

running version 5 is NOT an option. The beta expired today, so once you quit and try to restart fah5, you will receive a message that it expired October 1, 2007.

I will make the necessary changes to the QuickFold installer so that it downloads the new version.

Also of note: You MUST run it with the -smp option.

Does this mean Otsep has to re-install EDIT:  --->>>>  the Intel Macs ?

Last edited by Nefarious (2007-10-01 8:37 pm)

Thanks, AG3.

mmmmm...... I'm 30 % of the way into this protein.

A volunteer, please ? 

Does this installer require a passkey ?

There was a passkey which was required ( ? ) when I did the manual install with the download from Stanford's pages. 

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-v6.html

I had a power failure so I made a backup of my folding folders.     

QuickFold detected a previous install and so it did not install, but it would not uninstall (for new users: the uninstall is ??  deletion of the automatic startup of folding in the crontab).    I deleted the crontab manually.   Quickfold ran and fah6 found the current protein.   


However, how QF found the current version ?    Don't know.

Try this plan first:
0. Close the Terminal window.
1. Try InCrease 2.3.1
2. It might find the current Folding folder.
3. Use that to "Start" the Folding.  Just click start if the right column shows any Folding folder.

----- if that doesn't work, let me know.

Also, what is the name of the Folding folder in Home/ Library ?  I can write a quick crontab for you.

ALSO, go to Terminal and type
crontab -l

Report the results here if any.

mmm

Let's  make sure the crontab is empty

1. Make an empty text file and put in the Home folder.
2. Name the file  "empty.txt"
3. Make a new Terminal window.
4. copy and paste this into Terminal.  hit return just in case.

crontab <~/empty.txt
5.  Your crontab is now empty.

The simplest thing to do is:  ignore the current folding folder.

Download and run the QuickFold installer for SMPs  http://www.maclife.com/forums/topic/100596

It MIGHT, maybe, possibly find the curret protein.

AppleScrpt error in Artemis' installer. And probably a bug.

We will try again in the morning.  Nite.

Well, I finally bit the bullet, dumped everything including a protein that wes 63% complete. Somehow, both the protein I already had folding, but, couldn't wrest control over using InCrease and a new protein that apparently was downloaded by ArtemisG3's Quick Fold script file, were intertwined in such a way that if I stopped one the other would also stop. The time to complete the older of the two proteins went from 10 hours to 13 hours and the new protein showed a whopping 80 hours to complete. It was a Project 2608, 1350 pointer as I recall. It seemed hopeless. So, I just stopped them both. Dumped everything. Redownloaded InCrease 2.3.1, Quick Fold, set up a folder called FAH, downloaded fah6 Beta, put the two executables in the FAH folder and ran Quick Fold. Now I have a new protein running that I can fully control with InCrease. Everything seems normal again.

Note: I also had to dump the InCrease Preference file so it would stop looking for the old folder that had a different name.

This bad stuff is likely all my doing since I haven't taken the time to fully understand how to use the unix commands / tools.

Happily there are some great folks on these boards that have the knowledge / experience that I lack! Thanks for your help and patience.

I apologize if QuickFold only compounded the problem.

One thing I should mention is that there is no need to download the executables from Stanford's site, as that is one thing that QuickFold does for you.