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Erich56

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Message 69755 - Posted: 26 May 2016, 16:33:38 UTC

Sorry for my dumm question - I have been with BOINC long time, but whenever updates were available, I started "from scratch".
Now on one of my PCs I should finally update from 7.6.9 to 7.6.22. But I have a lot of ongoing projects with WUs being crunched in the data folder ("Slots") and various app_config.xml in the "Projects" folders, as well as a "cc_config.xml" in the main BOINC data folder.

I would guess that the update as such is only for the BOINC programm Folder, correct?

Is there a way to only update the program part, and leave the data part as is?
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Message 69756 - Posted: 26 May 2016, 16:42:23 UTC - in response to Message 69755.  

I would guess that the update as such is only for the BOINC programm Folder, correct?

Yes, the only thing that the BOINC installer does (for Windows at least) is to remove the old BOINC program files (boinc.exe, boinmgr.exe, boinccmd.exe etc.) and libraries and then install the new ones.

All information in the data directory is left untouched.
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Message 69759 - Posted: 26 May 2016, 20:18:53 UTC - in response to Message 69756.  

Yes, the only thing that the BOINC installer does (for Windows at least) is to remove the old BOINC program files (boinc.exe, boinmgr.exe, boinccmd.exe etc.) and libraries and then install the new ones.

thx, worked out fine :-)
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