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Gentilli

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Message 28115 - Posted: 19 Oct 2009, 20:24:25 UTC

Hi, I unfortunately ended up with 2 different cross project identifiers and my various accounts keep changing identifiers. How do I eliminate one of these identifiers?

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Profile Gundolf Jahn

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Message 28116 - Posted: 19 Oct 2009, 21:00:34 UTC - in response to Message 28115.  

Here's one answer from the FAQ at BOINCStats:
Why do I have duplicate/split accounts in the BOINC combined stats?

The cause of this is the CPID, Cross Project IDentifier. Every project assigns a new user a CPID. It is partly based on the email address you used to sign up, the other part is random.
The CPID is used by BOINCstats to identify a user across projects.
Whenever you sign up with a new project, you'll get a new account on BOINCstats because the CPID is new.

What to do to make sure you'll end up with one BOINCstats account:

  • Use the exact same email address for every project.
  • Run at least one system with all projects, or one system with project A and B, and one system with project B and C. If there is a project that runs isolated from the other projects, its CPID with never line up.

When you join a new project, this project assigns you a new CPID. This CPID can either change to the same CPID as the other projects, or the other projects change (one by one) to the new CPID.


Gruß,
Gundolf
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