Carl, when I said 809 I meant 809 not 809k.  You might be correct about the 
interpretation -- however if so I would suggest simply showing actual bytes of 
the file not bytes transfered in this first column.  It makes more sense and is 
more useful information.  Bruce


On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Carl Christensen wrote:

> hmm, I wonder if (since it's a bad connection) it's doing retries but showing 
> a cumulative byte count (i.e 4 downloads failed after 200K apiece, but the 
> actual file is 326k)?
> 
> 
> From: Bruce Allen <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] 
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 5:57 AM
> Subject: [boinc_dev] BOINC manager bug in Size column of Transfer tab?
> 
> Dear BOINC Dev,
> 
> I'm at a meeting in India with a VERY slow internet connection, and noticed 
> something odd.  My BOINC manager is v6.10.58, Mac OS X.  On the "Transfers" 
> tab, in the "SIze" column, the entries are of the form A/B.  Many of the 
> files are showing combinations such as 809/326.  I find this strange, since I 
> thought that A was the bytes  downloaded so far and B was the total file 
> size.  Hence A should not be greater than B.
> 
> Is this a bug?  Or am I misinterpreting these fields? Does A represent 
> something else than the current number of bytes downloaded for the file?
> 
> Cheers,
>     Bruce
> 


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