I started BOINC on a computer, with Seti as the only project. Initially, I used 'Home'. Now I want another computer at home to be the 'Home' machine, and I want this one to be changed to 'School'.

I have gone to preferences:
> - select view computers
> - select your computer in the list
> - choose your 'Location'
and have right clicked on Seti under the Project tab (and also restarted Boinc), but 'Home' still appears.

What gives?

Charlie

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Hello Charlie,
Do you use the current 4.25? It should be fixed with it.

For the 4.19 it's a well known bug, and 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.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

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