Hello,

I use BOINC 4.19 for a computer and my problem is that I cant attach all my projects with this version.
I apparently discovered that with this version you have to entered the project URL and waht they call an Account ID that is the Account key. Unfortunately I dont see this Account key on some of my account page projects, I guess that they exist, so how can I get them ?

I have an other question...
I registered a computer yesterday, it calculated during the afternoon and this morning I dont get any new tasks even if I update the project...?

May I ask why you are using BOINC 4.19? We're beta testing 6.2.11 at this moment.
4.19 does not do half the things that later versions do, for instance it won't do correct floating point calculations that are needed on projects like Einstein and Seti, therefore constantly under-claiming credit. Which is an annoyance to many people out there.

So why 4.19?

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May I ask why you are using BOINC 4.19? We're beta testing 6.2.11 at this moment.
4.19 does not do half the things that later versions do, for instance it won't do correct floating point calculations that are needed on projects like Einstein and Seti, therefore constantly under-claiming credit. Which is an annoyance to many people out there.

So why 4.19?

Because it doenst need the admin privileges to be installed...

Are you installing on your own machines? For if you aren't we can't help you.

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Are you installing on your own machines? For if you aren't we can't help you.

Yes but one of them is shared and my account is not a administrator one.

Did you know you can install all versions of BOINC with the /a option on the installer? That just unpacks BOINC, leaving you to move its files to the correct places.

See this FAQ for details. So there's really no excuse to use 4.19 any longer. Unless you like to have the wrath of people on you.

You could also ask the person with the administrator account on the machine to install BOINC for you. There is a good possibility that when 6.2 is released to the public that the developers will advice the projects to no longer allow 4.xx clients to fetch work. That the minimum version needs to be a 5.x.x version.

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By the way, the new 6.2 versions will make their own BOINC accounts, so you no longer need an administrator account to install or run these versions. You cannot use the unpack /a option, as although you can unpack 6.2 versions with it, as soon as you copy the files to the BOINC directory, then start BOINC, it will time out. Which is a bug. ;-)

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By the way, the new 6.2 versions will make their own BOINC accounts, so you no longer need an administrator account to install or run these versions. You cannot use the unpack /a option, as although you can unpack 6.2 versions with it, as soon as you copy the files to the BOINC directory, then start BOINC, it will time out. Which is a bug. ;-)

Woua...This is awsome, Why didnt I know that before ?

So...if you can do this with any soft, its a kind of way to install anything going through the admin properties...may be dangerous for some people...

Just by curiosity, what /a means ? Is it a command to unpack or something like that ?

Good news for the version 6.2, Im looking forward to its release !

Just by curiosity, what /a means ? Is it a command to unpack or something like that ?

Yes, as I have explained in the post before. That post also has a link to a FAQ I wrote on the subject.

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Just by curiosity, what /a means ? Is it a command to unpack or something like that ?

Yes, as I have explained in the post before. That post also has a link to a FAQ I wrote on the subject.

Apparently this doenst work with the version 5.10.45...

Just by curiosity, what /a means ? Is it a command to unpack or something like that ?

Yes, as I have explained in the post before. That post also has a link to a FAQ I wrote on the subject.

Apparently this doenst work with the version 5.10.45...

Sorry, this is because I did something wrong.
It does work. :)

By the way, the new 6.2 versions will make their own BOINC accounts, so you no longer need an administrator account to install or run these versions. You cannot use the unpack /a option, as although you can unpack 6.2 versions with it, as soon as you copy the files to the BOINC directory, then start BOINC, it will time out. Which is a bug. ;-)

The install needs an admin account to create the accounts at the very minimum.

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