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Message 813063 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 2:44:01 UTC - in response to Message 812982.  
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I have a couple of questions that may be related.

First, I recently changed my contact email address only, from [old email address removed] to [new email address removed]
Since then, as you can see in my signature, there has been only limited data on the websites that provide data tracking. My totals and percentage ranks appear to be there, but not my history. I did not change my account name or any other thing- only the email. Is that all lost? Actually, nothing is updating since that change.
Also, around the same time, I made a change to stay connected to the internet full time. And, even though I have run an update, and tried shutting BOINC down and re-starting, it still suspends network activity according to my previous settings.

BOINC 6.2.19 with Windows Vista SP1

First, it is a bad idea to post your email address online. Spammers will pick it up as a live email address.

Your email address is hashed with an internal Cross Project IDentifier to generate the external Cross Project IDentifier. Your history at third party web sites is now gone. It will update with the new numbers and build history from now on. Your stats on the project web site should be intact.

There are two possible places to change the settings for whether you are connected all the time (i.e. a scheduled connection). The first is in the settings under Your account on this web page. The second is in the Advanced View => Advanced => Preferences => Network Usage. The second overrides the first.


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Message 813169 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 14:36:00 UTC - in response to Message 813063.  

Thanks- Right after I posted, I realized I should not have put my actual email address in, but I could not change it.

I will re-check my settings. I changed the settings for connections on the website originally, and figured that should mean they woud eventually change on my BOINC installation. It just did not seem like it was updating.
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Message 813238 - Posted: 29 Sep 2008, 21:46:51 UTC - in response to Message 813169.  

For the first hour, you can edit a post. If you want a post like this to disappear after the hour of grace, you can hit the redX at the bottom of the post. This will get the attention of the moderators.

You can hurry the settings from the web by going to the advanced view -> projects tab -> click on the project -> click on update.


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Message 813544 - Posted: 1 Oct 2008, 0:27:49 UTC - in response to Message 813238.  

Thanks I must have missed the golden hour. I never thougth to contact a moderator. Duh!
My credit is starting to show again, and I seem to be connected as I should be.
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