Not a design flaw.
Suppose you delete the files of an app version that has no jobs.
5 minutes later the client gets a job for the app version.
You have to download the files again.

Der Meister wrote:

> As soon as BOINC detects that some files are missing it just 
> re-downloads them, usually at client start-up. There is no check if the 
> files are needed at all and that means you don't have much chances to 
> get rid of files that are not required any more. You either have to wait 
> for the project to send a delete-request which may not happen at all. Or 
> you completly detach from the project or you shut down the client, 
> remove the files and remove all references to these files in 
> client_state.xml *by hand*. None of these ways seems to be sufficient to me.
> 
> By the way, this design flaw is fixed in synecdoche ;)
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