Hi there,
This morning I noticed that overnight my computer had a nice 'blue screen' Windows crash and restarted.
It seems that somehow BOINC lost some data, as I was attached to 3 projects (Einstein@home, Seti@home and AQUA) and while I had 2 of those projects on 'No new tasks' Einstein and Aqua it now wasn't set to 'No new tasks' anymore resulting in lots of downloads.
Also all the previous pre-crash tasks were no longer visible in the Tasks tab.
I can deal with the flood of unneeded tasks, but my real question is: I can see that the SETI@home tasks are still there (in the /projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu directory). Is there any way I can make BOINC see these tasks again and start processing them?
Thanks for your support.
Basic info on system: Vista64, i940 CPU, 460GTX NVidia card.

Not without knowing their exact description in the client_state.xml file.
At that, what caused the BSOD? What did it says? (Check your Windows Event Viewer for clues).

But essentially, if your BOINC had nothing in it at the restart, your client_state.xml file was corrupt or erased. When that happens, I'd check the drive for inaccuracies first, try to figure out the cause of the BSOD so it won't happen again, before worrying about possible lost work at Seti.

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Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately event viewer doesn't give any information about the cause of the crash (only thing i see is that the last shutdown was unexpected (..) ).
Looks like indeed somehow client_state.xml was totally gone with the reboot after crash. The previous tasks are nowhere to be found in client_state.xml. Computer was working hard last night though with BOINC full speed and downloading lots of stuff which can be a big strain on the system. I remember something similar happening before about a year ago. Maybe change the newsgrabber as I suspect that is the culprit (was using an old GrabIt program).
I will just see this as an unfortunate incident and try not to make it happen again. Checked the drive and no errors on it.
What should I do with the 'lost tasks'? Just leave them and let them time out? Deattach/reattach from Seti@home?

The only way to 'move on' tasks, is to abort them. But to do this, they need to still be in the Tasks tab of your manager.

Just carry on, and let the server software deal with them.

What should I do with the 'lost tasks'? Just leave them and let them time out? Deattach/reattach from Seti@home?

Let them time out, detaching/reattaching won't help here either, as far as I know.

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