How to transfer BOINC and apps from my old Mac to my new one

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Jim Wilkins

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Message 5976 - Posted: 11 Oct 2006, 19:52:46 UTC

I am transitioning from my old PowerPC Mac to an Intel Mac. How do I migrate BOINC and all of the applications/data to the new machine?

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Message 5984 - Posted: 12 Oct 2006, 10:17:29 UTC

Windows advice that should work similarly on any OS. Copy the BOINC directory to the new machine and install BOINC to that same direcrory.
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Message 5989 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 7:42:02 UTC

He's also going from one instruction set to another, so there may be a different set of EXEs involved.

What projects are you doing, are you able to set 'no more work' and then run them dry before doing the transfer?
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Message 5990 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 10:36:54 UTC

But um, why do difficult? When the description of the host changes a lot, it will get a new hostID anyway. The only constant is always the account ID of the person. So just install BOINC on the new Mac and attach to your projects using the same email address with password combination that you used before.

Or copy over the account_*.xml files.
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Message 5991 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 12:47:52 UTC - in response to Message 5989.  

He's also going from one instruction set to another, so there may be a different set of EXEs involved.

What projects are you doing, are you able to set 'no more work' and then run them dry before doing the transfer?


I am doing SETI, Einstein and SZATAKI. I can dry up two of those, the third is nowhere close. I had not thought of just temporarily stopping them. I think that is a good idea.

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Message 5992 - Posted: 13 Oct 2006, 12:52:33 UTC - in response to Message 5990.  

But um, why do difficult? When the description of the host changes a lot, it will get a new hostID anyway. The only constant is always the account ID of the person. So just install BOINC on the new Mac and attach to your projects using the same email address with password combination that you used before.

Or copy over the account_*.xml files.


Mac has a "migrate" function in which one can migrate apps and data from your old machine to your new one via an ethernet cable. I think I will stop work on two of my apps and leave the one that has no hope of completion running. If the migrate function preserves the BOINC status, great! If it doesn't, I'm not that bad off.

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