Thread 'Change location of data directory?'

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Jazzop Send message Joined: 19 Dec 06 Posts: 90	Message 35750 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 1:17:13 UTC How do I tell BOINC to use a new physical disk drive as its data directory? Must I reinstall BOINC to do this? Or can I just move the BOINC folder and change a simple line of code somewhere? ID: 35750 ·
Les Bayliss Help desk expert Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1654	Message 35754 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 2:33:22 UTC - in response to Message 35750.   The option for changing the default location of the 2 parts of BOINC, is on an extra screen accessed by clicking the Advanced button, which is on the 3rd screen of the install process. There are a couple of other options there as well. ID: 35754 ·
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 1069	Message 35758 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 8:08:26 UTC - in response to Message 35750.   Must I reinstall BOINC to do this? It's the easiest way (assuming windows). Uninstall BOINC; move the data directory (it won't be deleted by uninstalling); install BOINC following the hints of Les Bayliss. You could also modify the windows registry after stopping BOINC and moving the folder. Gruß, Gundolf Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz) ID: 35758 ·
Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15602	Message 35759 - Posted: 17 Nov 2010, 8:21:25 UTC - in response to Message 35758.   You could also modify the windows registry after stopping BOINC and moving the folder. The problem here is permission on the folder, on Vista and 7. You can only get the permission repaired by installing BOINC, after moving the data directory. I've run into that problem on Win7, with moving the data directory from C: to D:, then just changing the registry. All work thereafter returned erroneously due to permission problems. ID: 35759 ·

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