Rob Bradford wrote:

I runn the old style SETI screensaver on three machines (2 XP, 1 W2000 pro)
all three of them have now satlled with the message "can't open file".  A
reboot sometimes works, but not now all three have stalled!  What file can't
it open?  Not a very helpful message.

Any ideas?

I've seen that one fairly often, perhaps once a month among a dozen
systems, usually during or immediately following a server outage. My
speculation is that it's caused by an interrupted or corrupted
download. With the Mac client a reboot is rarely necessary; on
dismissing the dialog and relaunching the client it usually picks up
a fresh WU right away (assuming the servers are up, and not overloaded).

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