I run boinc on a Powerbook 1.5 GHz, but the hard drive is slow. I would like to install it on a Maxtor external drive 7200 rpm, 8 mb cache ram, to gain speed. Can I just move its directory from "library" to the external drive? What about the preferences? Any suggestions?

Christian

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The BOINC GUI looks for the file to be in Library on the boot drive. I suspect you could alter some resource files to get it to look elsewhere, but I would have no idea how.

However, with the BOINC CLI (if you are comfortable with the terminal) you can run it anywhere.

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I got curious and tried various methods of doing this - aliases, at various levels, and such. All I managed to do was get BOINC thoroughly confused, and a bunch of extra files created all over the place.

The reasoning behind the /Library/Application Support/BOINC decision is so that BOINC can run "shared" - no matter which user is logged on, they see the same WUs, credits, etc. If the files could be put just "anywhere" this would break. However, I don't see why they couldn't be put "anywhere sharable" - but this will probably require changes to the BOINC Manager source code. I don't see any editable resources that would allow it.

Unless... a Unix "hard link" would work? Anyone able/willing to try that? (My Unix is very rusty...)

Any solution found here would also open up the use of RAM disks on the Mac platform, which would be VERY nice on a laptop...