Without any action on my part, my task list online shows my almost my entire cache in error as abandoned. I have 6 tasks in progress.

On my BOINC client (which was updated about a week or so ago to 7.2.33 (x64) ) shows the bulk of these ready to start.

Can anybody provide insight as to what has gone wrong, and how should I proceed to resolve?

Thank you!

Happened to me as well yesterday.
Good that I noticed, otherwise I would have kept on crunching without benefit to anyone.

I am waiting for new APs to be produced to stock up again. In the meanwhile doing V7.

My problem rose perhaps from the fact that I swapped hard disc.

But I started off from an identical copy of all partitions. I wonder how Boinc noticed that something had changed and produced a new Computer ID...
Never happened to me in previous occasions.

Sleepy

The Best thing to do is reset the project, it's a waste of time crunching those tasks that are marked as abandoned on the server, you'll get no Credit for them, the server will resend any tasks that haven't been abandoned.
(I might ask the devs to reconsider this, and allow tasks that have been marked as abandoned to be updated when returned and used for validation)

Claggy

Frak! Claggy, you've been spot on with your advice for me in the past, that without reading your complete post, I pulled the trigger on the reset option.

Sorry, all, if I've goofed things.

I see now I am limited due to the error states sent back. Will have to re-earn my full cache.

How long will the errored/abandonded tasks stay on my task pages?

I see now I am limited due to the error states sent back. Will have to re-earn my full cache.

How long will the errored/abandonded tasks stay on my task pages?

You're not so limited, the only ones that are reduced are for the 7.00 windows_intelx86 app version, the Cuda50 app version while you have lots of abandoned tasks isn't really reduced,
for CPU you could pick up AP tasks instead, and for GPU if the Cuda50 app_version was reduced you'd pick up Cuda32 and Cuda42 work instead, or NV OpenCL AP work.

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Claggy

Dear Claggy,
when I wrote I had already reset the project.

Happily, we were near to the new splitting season and I had not to wait very long (and checking the server status I knew that, so I almost happily waited the few remaining hours).

Still, it is a bit of a nuisance, since I was only transferring the whole package (together with all programs in the partition) from a disk to another (exit Boinc, copied all the files, restarted Boinc from the new, equally named and structured physical location).

Anyway I do not change disk every day. I can live with it.

Still, I had to do the same thing 2 weeks ago, then the brand new disk (WD Caviar, quite surprising) started to fail and I had to change the HD before the worst would happen and started the whole process again right 2 days after everything was again in full sync. That time it did not happen, though I made the very same moves. Wonder what was different this time.

Sleepy

Dear Claggy,
when I wrote I had already reset the project.

I didn't reply to you, you didn't need advice.

Claggy

Sorry.

I read too quickly and answered even more too much so! ;-)

Sleepy