Subject: Re: Work
From: Eric Allen
Date: 10/04/2010, 22:43
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Odysseus wrote:
In article <hpnr4a$e09$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
 Eric Allen <eric-allen@peoplepc.com> wrote:

It looks like they're at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu .
Moving workunits between systems may not be a trivial process. Let me know how it works out.
I'm Win7, that directory isn't here.

I don't use Windows myself, but I gather from postings on the S@h message boards that recent versions of BOINC and/or Windows put the data in a hidden system directory unless the installer is told to do otherwise. In the Messages tab, look at the first few log entries after the Manager starts up; one of them should give the path to the BOINC Data folder. Or browse the Windows Q&A forum at

<http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=12>

-- I'd be surprised if it there isn't a thread about it on the first page or so ...

The only easy way to transfer work from one machine to another is to copy the entire BOINC directory, in effect cloning the host. Individual WU files simply taken from another system will be either ignored or discarded, and even if you can trick the client into recognizing them (by hacking the client_state.xml file or whatever), IIANM the BOINC servers will only accept results from the system to which they were issued (as identified from the content of certain data files).

Thanks for the info, if it's that much work then forget it. I'll run BOINC on both machines.

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Eric