I went into Windows Firewall and made an exception for Foldit. Still no progress. I also went into Edit Profile and checked "Fix IRC Group Chat Permissions." After clicking "Update," the webpage appears to load but becomes blank. Returning to the Foldit website returns the following error:
- Checking registration…
- Failed for unknown reason.
- Checking group association…
- Attempt failed – please try again in a few minutes.
- The changes have been saved.
Is the website messing up? Please help.
- close all external irc programs (if any)
- shutdown all instances of foldit client
- run website and log in
- run client, login and load puzzle
- check that internal chat is working
- load recipe/s
You can only load recipes to ONE instance of foldit client, this one which is connected to chat.
If you want use external irc program make separate account for irc only.
When I have multiple clients running. Only the client with chat working gets the download.
Each client I run is in a separate folder, Foldit, Foldit2, Foldit3, and Foldit4.
If I use a client in which the chat does not work AND use the in game button to launch my browser, then log on, and select a recipe it will only be found in the client with chat.
Now, I have different Cook Books in each game folder. Rather than try and hack the macros.all file I closed all clients but the chat client and downloaded all scripts I wanted then copy/paste the macros.all to the other folders. Not a fun exercise.
The problem, though, is that internal chat isn't working. I looked in the log and found this:
Entering IRC::run
IRC::run error, code = 5, desc = Remote connection closed
Exiting IRC::run
BTW, I'm using only one client. My profile does not show any sort of IRC key on it.
Looks like you cant connect to IRC server somehow. Check your router/firewall or try use proxy on login screen.
I don't have a proxy server though. :(
I tried to get Foldit to run through Paros Proxy so that I could see the traffic going through, but there is some kind of error.
This glitch is really putting me at a disadvantage. Could my antivirus/firewall be the problem? I'm running avast free and Windows Firewall. I told my antivirus to ignore fold.it and the IRC chat server IP, and I made an exception in Windows Firewall for Foldit, but the IRC and recipes are still not working. :(
Could this have something to do with the website or IRC server? I was looking at the other cases where users were banned from the group chat. However, in those cases, global chat still works.
