I can not remove a project (Rosetta)

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AlphaOrionis

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Message 88008 - Posted: 10 Sep 2018, 19:22:02 UTC

I already reported the same problem on Rosetta site, without answers; possibly it depends on Boinc Manager, not on Rosetta.

I decided for some reasons to remove the project, firstly resetting it and then hitting the Remove button.
Rosetta still shows up in the the projects list, togheter with S@H which is the only other project.
BM tells that Rosetta still has 50% of resources assigned, and the Remove button is dimmed, so I can not do anything else.
All Rosetta crunching is suspended (no jobs pending), but I wonder if SETI is now using 100% of CPU power and time despite of BM different advise.

Is there something I can do?

BM version 7.12.1, localized Italian, OS Windows 7 x86
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Message 88012 - Posted: 10 Sep 2018, 21:23:27 UTC - in response to Message 88008.  

It sounds as if you originally added Rosetta via an Account Manager, such as BAM!

If that's the case, use the account manager to detach it again.
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Message 88026 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 16:20:00 UTC - in response to Message 88012.  

Possibly I did.
Unfortunately BAM does not show Rosetta anymore, only S@H.

The question is: which file in the Boinc folder could relate to this project in order to edit/delete it?

In the main folder I have a subfolder Projects which has other 2 folders, one for Seti and another one, EMPTY, named boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta

I do not know where BM stores the list of active/current projects.
I gave a quick look to other files in the main folder and I found this one: account_boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta.xml
Should I manually delete it? Or there is any other place to look at?

Thanks
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Message 88027 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 17:05:10 UTC - in response to Message 88026.  

Yes. At this point, I'd suggest:

Stop BOINC (strictly speaking, this means the BOINC Client, nothing to do with the Manager. A full exit from BOINC Manager should do it.)
Delete the file you have (correctly) identified
Start BOINC Manager again - which will in turn re-start the BOINC Client.

I've never run an account manager myself, so I'm hazy on details: I have heard reports that sometimes the rogue project returns after that process. If it does, come back here and we'll have another look.
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Message 88028 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 17:20:05 UTC

Presumably an alternative given that your only active project is SETI is to let all work with SETI complete, remove BOINC and check that all folders to do with BOINC are deleted. Re-install BOINC and attach again to SETI and or any other desired projects. A bit drastic I know but it would remove any trace of BAM's actions.
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Message 88029 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 17:35:46 UTC - in response to Message 88028.  

Unfortunately, no. Uninstalling BOINC only removes BOINC's programs - it deliberately leaves user data, such as project files, intact.
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Message 88032 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 18:49:16 UTC - in response to Message 88029.  

However deleting the entire BOINC data directory would I assume do the job?
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Message 88033 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 18:52:56 UTC - in response to Message 88032.  

Yes, I suppose so. It's a bit of a sledgehammer approach, though - removing all logs and statistics too, possibly losing favoured ID numbers. Some people (including me!) don't like doing that, so I'd hold it back as a last resort and try more forensic approaches first.
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Message 88034 - Posted: 11 Sep 2018, 18:56:20 UTC - in response to Message 88027.  

Yes. At this point, I'd suggest:

Stop BOINC (strictly speaking, this means the BOINC Client, nothing to do with the Manager. A full exit from BOINC Manager should do it.)
Delete the file you have (correctly) identified
Start BOINC Manager again - which will in turn re-start the BOINC Client.

I've never run an account manager myself, so I'm hazy on details: I have heard reports that sometimes the rogue project returns after that process. If it does, come back here and we'll have another look.


Perfect Richard, it did the job.
To be safer, I removed the Rosetta folder inside Projects.

Now only Seti is running, with 100% of resources.
Many thanks
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