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Gary Newell

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Message 24161 - Posted: 7 Apr 2009, 15:01:41 UTC

When the boinc manager is uninstalled, it seems to retain status information and during a re-install it remembers your previous data directory and finds your previous work units. Where is this information stored?

I’m asking for two reasons. I’m running 6.6.20 and I think something is slightly mucked up in the setup. seti@home jobs have been finishing with messages like (paraphrased) “the job finished, but zero bytes of result data was found”. I think a fresh install may help this. And, during the re-installation a large group of files are left ‘locked’ so that I can not modify their privileges. The lock appears to be because they are currently being accessed (even prior to starting boinc manager).

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Message 24162 - Posted: 7 Apr 2009, 15:04:29 UTC - in response to Message 24161.  

When the boinc manager is uninstalled, it seems to retain status information and during a re-install it remembers your previous data directory and finds your previous work units. Where is this information stored?

In the registry, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup
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Message 24182 - Posted: 9 Apr 2009, 14:51:42 UTC

I found the entry, but it also seemed to work to just delete the executable directory too. Everything is re-installed and back up running now.

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