Will I lose a WU?

Xplo · 7 Nov 2006 at 18:19

Hi

Got a PC thats giving me a deadline of 1day1hour left on its current WU. Thats great, means tomorrow at 7 it will be finished. However its being taken offline and dismanteld tommorow at 3pm as its being given to a relative.

They then will not have the internet for few weeks, but what happens in the meantime? When setup for them tommorow at 3pm they will likely use it that evening, so the WU would have finished but would not be able to upload to stanford!

So a simple question, im thinking either one of these would happen?

1.) It would finish the WU, try uploading for say 30mins, realise theres is no internet and discard the WU, therefore that WU is lost, it will then try to download another, hence no internet it wont get very far and will just pause in its current state.

2.) It would finish the WU, try uploading for say 30mins, realise theres is no internet and store the WU in a folder, and when there is internet avaialble it will then upload the WU in few weeks time. It will then try to download another, hence no internet it wont get very far and will just pause in its current state.

3.) It would finish the WU, try uploading for say 30mins, realise theres is no internet and will 'Pause' until there is internet avaiable to upload the WU. It will not try to download anymore WU's, it will remain paused until it can upload the current one.

Which one is correct? if any?

Thankyou

Xplo · 7 Nov 2006 at 18:43

LOL mikeymike that is really funny, thanks for the info tho.

I dont know why I went into so much detail anyway! All I needed to know was whether I would lose the WU or not!

Only got it yesterday so still got a huge deadline on it!

Cheers for atleast clearing that up you two!

But Rich how do I transfer the WU? That would seem a decent option.

Xplo · 7 Nov 2006 at 18:45

Also another quick question.

As the PC will be offline for a while is there anyway I could download loadsa WU's that it can fold while its offline, and then upload all of them wen they get the net? Ive heard this can be done, how much hassle is it? Going out now to watch the game but will be eagerly waiting your replys when I gt home.

Btw loving the new IE 7.0

Xplo · 7 Nov 2006 at 23:32

Hi billy

thanks a lot for that im going to transfer it over tomoz.

Its going to be transferred over to a P4 machine, its HT so its already running 2 WU's at once.

So to get this straight im going to disable both WU's on the P4 using services.msc, then copy the folder over, obviously different directory, but then im stuck on step 5, seems abit confusing, dont understand -oneunit ? Do i just go about as if i ws setting uf F@H again as instructed by the sticky on these forums, but include -oneunit AND -config only in the same command line? Im guessing registry edits dont have to be made again as its already folding? Can i activate the two WU's the P4 is already using once i have transfered the folder over? What happens if i dont delete the folder from the first PC, could i just leave it and let it also finish the same WU then let it download another when relatives get internet?

Hmm always been loyal to IE tried firefox before, yeah its faster

just prefer the layout and stuff of IE it feels more natural lol

BTW thanks for the help Billy as usual