My work PC cas crunched happily for over 2 years. But now they have blocked all access so that it can't report results or get new WUs, not even via a proxy. (This only affects one of my PCs, but has apparently had a disastrous impact on the main work user.)

I understand that it may be possible to port the BOINC folder to another PC and upload the results from there. I have two SETI results to report, and an ongoing CPDN WU that has perhaps three months to run to completion, but several trickles to report now.

Any advice on how to do this please, or pitfalls to avoid? It would have to be ported to a PC that already runs BOINC.

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Take a full backup of the Boinc folder (with Boinc shut down) and copy it to the same location on another PC. Then just resume running. It'll phone home the results.

It's a complication that the other PCs you have to chose from also run Boinc, you'd need to move their installations to one side temporariliy.

It's important that you have the permission of anyone whose PC you use, i.e., your work needs to be happy that Boinc is running. I have heard of someone going to court through using a work PC.

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Take a full backup of the Boinc folder (with Boinc shut down) and copy it to the same location on another PC. Then just resume running. It'll phone home the results.

It's a complication that the other PCs you have to chose from also run Boinc, you'd need to move their installations to one side temporariliy.

It's important that you have the permission of anyone whose PC you use, i.e., your work needs to be happy that Boinc is running. I have heard of someone going to court through using a work PC.

Thanks Mike. There was a time when they used to have the SETI screensaver on every PC. Then there was a change of policy, and since then they have prohibited SETI/BOINC on "live" PCs, and done all they can to make it as difficult as possible on any other - although they never went as far as actually prohibiting it. It seems that finally they have defeated our SETI guru (who has millions of credits to his name, and I know is pretty devastated about this).

I think I'll write off the SETI WUs, wait until the CPDN task has finisned, then port the BOINC folder, report CPDN, and call it a day on that PC.

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