I just tried to upgrade to Boinc 4.25 and it didn't seem to save my settings or my WUs, so I uninstalled that version and reinstalled 4.19. My question is, will 4.25 retain my "old" WUs and upload them? It didn't even *appear* to save my account information, but when I stepped back to 4.19, all that information, including my WUs which were ready to report (and the ones I'm currently crunching) were there again.

What gives?

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Did you uninstall 4.19 or just try to upgrade over the top? You MUST uninstall anything earlier versions or 4.2? will not work.

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> Did you uninstall 4.19 or just try to upgrade over the top? You MUST uninstall
> anything earlier versions or 4.2? will not work.
>
Nope, uninstalled, although I did back up the current folder as "copy of..." :-) Too lazy to rename it before I upgraded.

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OK, not an answer but commiseration. I also upgraded and the 4.25 version didn't pick up my projects or WUs on two machines.

Yes, I uninstalled my old version, rebooted and installed 4.25.

Additional notes:

I never install in program files for reasons that probably aren't very good. I installed instead (both old and new) in c:\boinc.

Just for yucks, I copied my c:\boinc to c:\program files\boinc and reinstalled 4.25 to c:\program files\boinc (the defaults). Same thing

I also do work for ProteinPredictorAtHome, so each machine was registered for two different projects.

I tried re-attaching to the Seti@Home project and nothing happened. That is, I filled in the URL and ID box, hit the OK button and the attach dialog box disappeared. And nothing at all happened after that.

When I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstalled 4.19, my projects returned and the WUs were found.


FWIW

Erick

stdoutgui.txt is repeating these messages a lot after installing 4.25......


Retrieving system state; please wait...
Retrieving host information; please wait...

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> OK, not an answer but commiseration. I also upgraded and the 4.25 version
> didn't pick up my projects or WUs on two machines.
>
> Yes, I uninstalled my old version, rebooted and installed 4.25.
>
> Additional notes:
>
> I never install in program files for reasons that probably aren't very good. I
> installed instead (both old and new) in c:boinc.
>
> Just for yucks, I copied my c:boinc to c:program filesboinc and reinstalled
> 4.25 to c:program filesboinc (the defaults). Same thing
>
> I also do work for ProteinPredictorAtHome, so each machine was registered for
> two different projects.
>
> I tried re-attaching to the Seti@Home project and nothing happened. That is, I
> filled in the URL and ID box, hit the OK button and the attach dialog box
> disappeared. And nothing at all happened after that.
>
> When I uninstalled 4.25 and reinstalled 4.19, my projects returned and the WUs
> were found.
>
>
> FWIW
>
> Erick
>
> stdoutgui.txt is repeating these messages a lot after installing 4.25......
>
>
> Retrieving system state; please wait...
> Retrieving host information; please wait...
>
In 4.25, what did it say at the right end of the status bar?
>

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BOINC WIKI

I really, really hate it when things change without any obvious reason. I have no idea what the status bar said. So I re-installed 4.25 to see. And it all works just fine today.

Who knows what happened to me last week? Perhaps I just wasn't being patient enough for the initial start up, although *I* obviously thought so.

Anyway, "Never mind".

Erick

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