Can't abort many tasks.

[hucker]

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!

[fred]

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.

[fred]

The errors are also logged to a file:
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\BoincTasks Js\logging

[hucker]

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.

[fred]

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.

[hucker]

By "very dangerous" I assume you mean users lose work by mistake?

[fred]

By "very dangerous" I assume you mean users lose work by mistake?

Right, this isn't something to do every day.