I wanted to abort many tasks on my computer in my holiday home before I left it for 3 weeks, so I selected all the tasks and right clicked and abort. Then it says "you cannot delete a filter this way" - I wasn't trying to!
It only goes wrong if the selection includes a collapsed groups of tasks.
Then when I tried to expand more than one collapsed group, the screen goes blank and I have to restart boinctasks!
I you include a filter you might get that message.
What version are you using?
If this happens again go to Show -> Error log.
It might be that the tasks just got automatically deleted by the BOINC client because they were too old.
The errors are also logged to a file:
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\BoincTasks Js\logging
I've recreated the problem on another computer. This is a fresh install of Boinctasks JS from MS store. In the screenshot I highlighted the bottom two rows and right clicked, then abort. I got the resulting error. It doesn't like aborting a collapsed set of tasks. The original Boinctasks was ok with this. It's referring to a filter, but I've set up no filters, that's just a bunch of tasks collapsed.
(https://i.imgur.com/bRZrAaa.png)
It's more or less by design, since deleting all tasks in a filter is very dangerous.
Open the filter and select the tasks.
It's a bit more work, but much safer.
By "very dangerous" I assume you mean users lose work by mistake?
Quote from: hucker on December 25, 2025, 08:10:45 PMBy "very dangerous" I assume you mean users lose work by mistake?
Right, this isn't something to do every day.