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Drew Hall

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Message 3192 - Posted: 21 Feb 2006, 20:17:36 UTC

Hi,

I've got a big hard drive that's partitioned into a smallish C: partition and a huge D: partition. BOINC seems to want to force its installation & the subsequent project data/executables onto the C: drive, with the inevitable result (when participating in CPDN) that my C: drive fills up & causes BOINC to start rejecting work.

Does anybody know of a way to get BOINC to use an alternate directory for either the project data or "the whole enchilada"? I'm using the Windows version, obviously.

Thanks for your help,

Drew
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Message 3193 - Posted: 21 Feb 2006, 21:09:12 UTC
Last modified: 21 Feb 2006, 21:11:59 UTC

Stop BOINC from running.

Uninstall BOINC.

Move the whole BOINC folder (with all subdirectories included) to the other harddrive. (Do NOT Delete anything!)

Reinstall BOINC.
When at this screen:

Press the Change button.

When at this screen:

Press the down arrow at the top, browse to your destination folder (thus the one you just moved Boinc to) and press OK.

When at this screen:

Check that you are pointing at the correct folder and press Next.

You will now install Boinc to that folder on that drive.
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Drew Hall

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Message 3236 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 21:36:41 UTC

Ageless,

Thanks very much--I didn't think it would be so easy to do, but that definitely did the trick. I would have preferred to have a setting within BOINC Manager to point it at a different data directory (I like to keep apps & data segregated), but this will do just fine.

Thanks again,

Drew
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