Hello,

I have not been actively installing BOINC on my computers in some years now, but my desktop has been quietly churning away on projects for over a decade. I have upgraded the hardware, over time, but it is still the same Ubuntu machine that started out on version 8.04, and I just upgraded to 18.04.

That's what I'm writing about. I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 and, as sometimes happens, the package manager removed BOINC to try to resolve a dependency conflict, and I, not paying attention, let it do it.

So, no big deal, I reinstall BOINC, point the working directory to the custom location I have it at (files still intact) and restart the service. I open up BOINCMgr and, to my surprise, no projects are installed... OK.

So, I figure, oh well, maybe I lost a couple of workloads, lets just re-add the projects and we'll be good.

I also, on the same day, added a 16 core Xeon server that I'm not really doing anything else with - it's running on 75% cores right now, and I went out to BOINCStats to see what this is doing...

I open up the stats to reveal that my efforts have yielded -1,342,559 yesterday, dropping me from global rank 140,864 to 333,607, and decreasing my overall contribution from 1,720,471 to a meager 377,872.

What gives?

I mean, I'm not really doing this for the glory, but it is cool to see those #s go up - and I figure, with this server, I could reach 2M in a few months.

Any ideas on what happened?
Is it because I had to reinstall the software on the server?
Is it because I updated the email address on a bunch of my accounts (including the BOINCStats account)?
Because I changed the working directory (and squashed something)?

Any advice on how to get my stats back would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

--mobrien118

If you changed you email address for any previously joined projects, you were issued a new cpid. Your credits are lost for the older account cpid unless you put the host back onto the old cpid by editing client_state.xml and incrementing the rpc_seqno by one from what the website shows for the number of times your old host cpid contacted the project.

Or if the hardware and operating system have not changed, you can use the normal merge computers function on the project website to merge the old host cpid into the new cpid and you can regain the lost credits. You will lose the creation date of the older host though if that is not important to you.

Or one or more of the projects you participate in has added an extra preferences option for you to check to allow statistics to be transferred under the GDPR act. These options are unchecked by default (off), you have to give express permission for them.

Check under project preferences for these options.

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