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).

Thanks!

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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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.

Thanks!