I have a couple of different computers I have been using with seti/boinc for a while now. I would like to have each of them with slightly different preferences (they are used for different things), so I have modified the settings I want using work, school, and home. I have set each of the computers to the correct location, and the web site lists the computers as the correct location, but the computers do not behave according to their prefs. This has been going on for me since the project switched to boinc. I have tried manually forcing an update of the prefs, but again, the settings from the web never seem to be downloaded -- all the machines have the prefs from the same location, regardless of the setting on the web.

Has this been a problem for anyone else? Is it just me? If it is common where can I post to be sure the developers know about it?

Thanks much!

-geoff s.

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Hello geoff,

what version of Boinc are you using?
It was a known bug in the old 4.19, should have been solved in 4.2x

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> Hello geoff,
>
> what version of Boinc are you using?
> It was a known bug in the old 4.19, should have been solved in 4.2x
>

> 4.13 Mac OS X.... I notice from the boinc site that 4.19 is the 'recommended' version for OS X, but 4.25 is available as the developmental. How stable is that version, and should I jump ahead to that one?

Thanks much for your reply -

-geoff s.

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> 4.13 Mac OS X.... I notice from the boinc site that 4.19 is the
> 'recommended' version for OS X, but 4.25 is available as the developmental.
> How stable is that version, and should I jump ahead to that one?

As I'm on windoze, I do not know.
Here 4.25 is the stable version.
There is a workaround for the 4.19 for Win, I do not know whether it will work on a real computer:

Here in this thread is the solution:
Here is a manual solution. Exit out of BOINC. Edit your client_state.xml file. Search for the host_venue tag set. If your file was like mine, there was no host_venue tagset. In that case add the following line

<host_venue>school</host_venue>

just before the last line which should be

</client_state>

Once you have saved the changes, restart BOINC and you will see it now uses the alternate prefs. This change will remain even after your projects contact the server.


> Thanks much for your reply -

Don't mention it ;)

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