During installation of boinc_6.4.5 (Windows 98) I was offered the opportunity to move data. I thought "why not - I have a data partition" so I accepted.
BOINC moved ALL my application data, which I didn't expect or want. Even a number of applications that were not in C:\Documents and Settings\etc have ended up in the BOINC directory I created.
Was that the intention? If so, we should have been warned!
Graeme

What did you think the Data directory was for, other than for your data, which includes the science applications and all the tasks that they run?

Please read this FAQ. I don't know how much of it applies to Windows 98; I doubt the accounts were made and all that as Win98 isn't that secure by itself.

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During installation of boinc_6.4.5 (Windows 98) I was offered the opportunity to move data. I thought "why not - I have a data partition" so I accepted.
BOINC moved ALL my application data, which I didn't expect or want. Even a number of applications that were not in C:\Documents and Settings\etc have ended up in the BOINC directory I created.
Was that the intention? If so, we should have been warned!
Graeme

The short answer is that this is normal.

Boinc moves all files that are not executable recognized as being created as part of the normal core install process. It assumes that these need to be created, written to or modified by the Boinc programs and the projects. This is to make it compatible with security features in Windows Vista and future Windows versions that does not allow file to be changed in the Program Files directory except during the install process. In Windows Boinc versions prior to V6 these files were normally in the Program Files\Boinc folder.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

I have separate drives for Windows (C:), Windows applications (D:) and Windows data (E:), expressly to reduce the amount of fragmentation. I wanted to move BOINC data into E:\BOINC. BOINC moved 33 other application directories that were in D: (ie nothing to do with BOINC) below E:\BOINC, creating over 4000 errors in the registry.
Fortunately, most of the time I run BOINC under Linux, but I am NOT impressed.

...BOINC moved 33 other application directories that were in D: (ie nothing to do with BOINC) below E:\BOINC, creating over 4000 errors in the registry...

Nice trick! How did you achieve this?

Where was your original BOINC located, somewhere top level?

Gruß,
Gundolf

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