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Help needed to tranport an installation

One of our members posted this

Tech question...Before the v6.2.16 update all I had to do to move BOINC to a new machine was copy the BOINC folder from Program Files.
Now I don't know what to copy, where to copy it from and where to paste it. The folders listed when installing the latest updates are either hidden or don't exist as stated. (there is no Application Data folder under ALL USERS or anywhere else I've seen) If I do a search on BOINC I get 55 matches in various locations on the HD.
Can someone tell me what I really need to copy to the new machine to keep things going? I don't want to do a new install as I upgrade machines quite often



Thanks in advance for your help
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Re: Help needed

If they want to stay sane, they will have to install it properly.

Or stick with BOINC 5.10.45 - there is no significant advantage to using BOINC 6. My opinion is that BOINC 6 is a lemon.
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

6.2 most certainly is. Right now from user perspective the only major change is multi task selection and action and maybe, the higher graphics stability. Compromise late in the game was that in Service(Protected) install the full graphics is said as printed in the installer, not fully available as was the object.

But, certainly things as sneaker-netting have been substantially complicated since the programs and data no longer reside in the same logical directory structure, in fact the installer wont even allow for that to be possible.

Very possibly if a mirror install were made on multiple machines, the data dir could be carried back and forth for off line crunching. It's not supported so maybe a tweaker can share his/her experience. Certainly found that the manual option parm available for 5.10.45 <data_dir>/path/to/dir</data_dir> does not show up in the 6.2 installation of cc_config.xml, so moving the data location is not obvious to me as how to control outside the installer. Tested it briefly by adding it manually and it worked, but other than that going to stay long distance from this.

6.2.16.... if you/your member have to, go to 6.2.18, but it's not the last point release is what I can make out. WCG shared that they only just begun to look at the code of 6 and the changes needed to make it WCG "recommended". If you see the website profile option of processor # get a second option "% of the processors" , you know the time is there.

[offtopic]lemon.... is what the English put in their tea and we put on the fish.... got 3 of those trees in the garden[/offtopic]
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

Yuk!!! I put milk & sugar in my tea.
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

Thanks to all !! wink
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

I had a lemon tree. It died.
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

Title: Help needed

Oh no! Not you Jean Pierre...
If all members needing help start calling their thread "Help needed" this forum will quickly become useless.

Would you please edit your original post and replace its title with the current one so that it can be useful to other members with the same problem.

Thank you. Jean.
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

Done Jean

Many thanks !!
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

Another question

Thanks JP but looking at the thread recommended, it seems only that they want to put down BOINC, not address the question at hand. I guess I'll just get out my USB IDE/SATA adapter and copy/paste all 55 files/folders to the new drive. I guess my real question is the regular BOINC folder is still in program files but what neccesary files/folders are someplace else (if any). Oh well.

Try this question,
XP Pro...Administrator is the only profile I have but whenever there's a reboot, I have to hit enter when it asks for a password (I did not name a password) to get the machine to finish booting. How can I make these machines with PRO boot up automatically (if I'm not home when they reboot, they just sit there and I lose crunch time)
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Re: Help needed to tranport an installation

Another question

Thanks JP but looking at the thread recommended, it seems only that they want to put down BOINC, not address the question at hand. I guess I'll just get out my USB IDE/SATA adapter and copy/paste all 55 files/folders to the new drive. I guess my real question is the regular BOINC folder is still in program files but what neccesary files/folders are someplace else (if any). Oh well.

The location of the data-directory depends on OS. For 2000/XP/2003, default is "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC Data\" and for Vista/2008 it's "C:\ProgramData\BOINC Data\" but please note that Vista hides c:\ProgramData\

You can during installation choose another location for data-directory.

Regardless of where the data-directory is located, to "sneakernet", you'll be copying the data-directory and it's sub-directories.

Try this question,
XP Pro...Administrator is the only profile I have but whenever there's a reboot, I have to hit enter when it asks for a password (I did not name a password) to get the machine to finish booting. How can I make these machines with PRO boot up automatically (if I'm not home when they reboot, they just sit there and I lose crunch time)

Well, if you've installed as Service, you'll crunch regardless of logged-in or not... As for a method of logging-in automatically, no idea, since I've never had XP installed...
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