I am transitioning from my old PowerPC Mac to an Intel Mac. How do I migrate BOINC and all of the applications/data to the new machine?

Thanks,
Jim Wilkins

Windows advice that should work similarly on any OS. Copy the BOINC directory to the new machine and install BOINC to that same direcrory.

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He's also going from one instruction set to another, so there may be a different set of EXEs involved.

What projects are you doing, are you able to set 'no more work' and then run them dry before doing the transfer?

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But um, why do difficult? When the description of the host changes a lot, it will get a new hostID anyway. The only constant is always the account ID of the person. So just install BOINC on the new Mac and attach to your projects using the same email address with password combination that you used before.

Or copy over the account_*.xml files.

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He's also going from one instruction set to another, so there may be a different set of EXEs involved.

What projects are you doing, are you able to set 'no more work' and then run them dry before doing the transfer?

I am doing SETI, Einstein and SZATAKI. I can dry up two of those, the third is nowhere close. I had not thought of just temporarily stopping them. I think that is a good idea.

Thanks,
Jim

But um, why do difficult? When the description of the host changes a lot, it will get a new hostID anyway. The only constant is always the account ID of the person. So just install BOINC on the new Mac and attach to your projects using the same email address with password combination that you used before.

Or copy over the account_*.xml files.

Mac has a "migrate" function in which one can migrate apps and data from your old machine to your new one via an ethernet cable. I think I will stop work on two of my apps and leave the one that has no hope of completion running. If the migrate function preserves the BOINC status, great! If it doesn't, I'm not that bad off.

Thanks,
Jim