Hello Q&A.

I did some client and account maintenance today, and went at it without thinking it through. I need you experience with the BOINC backend to determine if I made a big or a little Oops.

Here is what I did, in sequence. Sequence is important 'cuz if I messed up this is where I did it.

- - Way earlier - -
a. Sign up on BOINC, in 2005, with address@Provider.A.
b. Accrete credits, crunching SAH.
c. Move house, get new ISP and nre e-mail address.
d. Continue crunching SAH as before.

- - Today - -
1. Decide do participate in two other projects, sign up to both with address@Provider.B, through BOINC clients already running SAH.

2. Logon to SAH website, modify account parameters to change e-mail address from adress@provider.A to address@provider.B.

3. Have an "oh sh-" moment.

I fear I might have created a new identity when I signed up with address@provider.B. So I'm thinking work on the two new projects might get credited to newMe instead of Me. If that is the case I guess detach and reattach everything ?

Or maybe changing the e-mail on the SAH account was enough and everything will fall in place once the next xml's go out ?

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mambo

I fear I might have created a new identity when I signed up with address@provider.B. So I'm thinking work on the two new projects might get credited to newMe instead of Me. If that is the case I guess detach and reattach everything ?

No new identity, as you can see to the left of your message: same join date and all credits are still there. You might suffer from "split CPID" (you got a new one by changing email address) on the statistics sites for some time, but that's all.

Or maybe changing the e-mail on the SAH account was enough and everything will fall in place once the next xml's go out ?

That's it.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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I fear I might have created a new identity when I signed up with address@provider.B. So I'm thinking work on the two new projects might get credited to newMe instead of Me. If that is the case I guess detach and reattach everything ?

No new identity, as you can see to the left of your message: same join date and all credits are still there. You might suffer from "split CPID" (you got a new one by changing email address) on the statistics sites for some time, but that's all.

Or maybe changing the e-mail on the SAH account was enough and everything will fall in place once the next xml's go out ?

That's it.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Sweet !

Thanks for the reply.

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mambo