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Send message Joined: 23 Oct 06 Posts: 1 |
My account is set up on my D: drive which has only 38gig space free, whereas my C: drive has almost 200gigabytes free space. Is there any way of changing which drive the program uses without doing an uninstall and reinstall? Thank You |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15558 |
You can move over your whole BOINC directory to the other drive. Then all you need to change is the drive letter and directory name on the properties of the shortcut link to Boinc Manager in your Startup folder. (if you have Windows) That is, if you didn't install BOINC as a service, for then you do need to uninstall & reinstall. May I ask what project or projects you are attached to that you need more than 38GB of space? BOINC isn't that big and unless you are attached to ALL CPDN projects with a cache of 10 days worth of work... I don't see how you'd fill up this space. |
Send message Joined: 9 Sep 08 Posts: 1 |
How would I do a drive change to my external drive on OS X? |
Send message Joined: 15 Sep 08 Posts: 2 |
I too would like to know how to change drives on a Mac. I'm running OS 10.5.4 and when I run the installer (for BOINC 6.2.18) it says that I cannot install on any of my external disk drives because "You can only install this software on the running Mac OS X volume." BTW I like the grammar ;-) |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15558 |
@Chris and Sam. I asked the developer about this and here's what he answered me: Charlie Fenton wrote: This is complicated a bit by the need to set up the special permissions for BOINC's sandbox security, but it can be done. These instructions are provided with no warranty; use them at your own risk. Hope this helps. :-) |
Send message Joined: 17 Jul 06 Posts: 287 |
[4] Run the script Mac_SA_Secure.sh to set up proper permissions at the new locations. Enter the following in the Terminal application: Correction: that should be sudo sh {path}/Mac_SA_Secure.sh Cheers, --Charlie Charlie Fenton BOINC / SETI@home Macintosh & Windows Programmer |
Send message Joined: 15 Sep 08 Posts: 2 |
Great! I'll give it a try. Thanks very much. |
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