Mike was Kind enough to send me the ati apps to copy into "Extract all files to Boinc data directory not program folder.
Where all workunits are located.
You need admin right i guess.
Usually C:\programdata\boinc\projects\setihome.berkeley.edu"

He also said to use up all pending WU's first...

"Note:
It could be that you loose all your work in case of new appinfo.xml.
To make sure you can set no new work and let all units finnish first."

Does this mean all WU's In queue ? (OR) Just the ones that is being done NOW ?

I still have about 50 in Queue and 2 of them are astropulse...
Is there any way to get around the waiting till all 50 are done ?
without messing any of them up ?

I am Just able to do 2 at a time with My duel core Cpu !

Anybody have any info on this ?

set your BOINC seti@home to "no new tasks" when you complete most or all your tasks then install. this prevents you from losing all the WU's incase the install fails

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set your BOINC seti@home to "no new tasks" when you complete most or all your tasks then install. this prevents you from losing all the WU's incase the install fails

I already did that... I had over 100 to start with...
I guess I will just have to wait... another day or three for the rest of them to get done... Sigh !

the two astropulse ones will take about 24 hours straight , by themselves... !

Actually, with 'resend lost taks' enabled you should get them back, if you mess up with the app_info editing, but it's still better to run the cache down before tampering with it. Asking the server to get your tasks back, when the download link is saturated can be frustrating...

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Carola
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Actually, with 'resend lost taks' enabled you should get them back, if you mess up with the app_info editing, but it's still better to run the cache down before tampering with it. Asking the server to get your tasks back, when the download link is saturated can be frustrating...

The trick is to save your Wu files to safe location before you do the upgrade, then if you muck up and the server starts resending those Wu's, just shut Boinc down, copy those Wu files back, restart Boinc,
then every time the Server resends those Wu's, Boinc will skip the download as you're already got the files, (and you don't have to wait 5 minutes between requests)

Claggy

If I am going to mess around with things where I think I might loose all the work on the system I do this process.
1) Suspend network activity.
2) Shutdown BOINC.
3) Backup BOINC program & data folders.
I like to just stuff it in .rar file with little/no compression. In my case I have my data inside of the program folder. So I don't have have to keep track of things in to locations.
4) Mess around with whatever I want to play with.
5) Restore backup copy when/if something goes wrong.
6) Delete .rar backup data once finished messing around & BOINC is running happily again.
7) Resume network activity.

There are some cases where BOINC will flag the work as "aborted" depending on what you are playing around with. So those tasks will not be able to get resent if things went wonky.

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