I upgraded to BOINC 5.2.13 earlier today, and I've just found that I have lost the statistics on my client. All I get is an empty window with the buttons on the left.

Have I trashed a local file somehow? I made a copy of the complete BOINC directory ( I'm running Windslow XP ) before the upgrade; can I copy the old file from there to get me going again ?

Mike

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Mike

I made a copy of the complete BOINC directory ( I'm running Windslow XP ) before the upgrade; can I copy the old file from there to get me going again ?

YES! :-) Well... almost.

The files are called statistics_projectname.xml (ie; statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml). If you haven't run the new version yet, you can just copy them over. If you have already run the new version, it should have created new files, and you don't want to overwrite those - you want to use a text editor (notepad will work) and copy the contents from the old files into the correct place in the new ones.

BOINC shouldn't have zapped the old files though, unless the format was incompatible, or the install locations were different. If the old and new statistics files don't look the same, you may have to do some manual editing, or just use a 3rd-party site such as boincstats.com to show you historical data (in far more detail and better looking than the stats tab, imho).

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Thanks for the info Bill.
I checked again this morning, and my stats are back. The running total and average are OK, but upgrading seems to have wound back the calendar so that upgrade day equals day zero. I guess that was why nothing showed yesterday.
I'm not too bothered either way, it's just that it was an unexpected effect.

Boinc.com - I like it. If/when I get time I'll dig around in it. Thanks.

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Mike