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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : how to direct BOINC to use a specific disk drive (Message 113894)
Posted 13 Apr 2024 by bill
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thank you.
BOINC program was in C:\Program Files\BOINC
BOINC data files were in Y:\programData\BOINC, so I copied it to V: where I wanted it.
I looked in the registry and I found: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders which pointed to directories in Y:
Y:\ProgramData\BOINC\=1
Y:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\ = null z(no value)
Y:\ProgramData\BOINC\slots\ = null

I renamed the keys to point to V instead of Y
I also found keys in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\828397E4864A663498F2CFF263CE999D and in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\834027C98E5377341A50FA6357660449 and in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\C61F1F0B9424F8046974099943BAEF87 and Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\E6A7EF9C0742666449B9D42BBB39E6F5
these pointed to Y:\programdata\BOINC, so I changed the data to point to V:
and Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup has a DATADIR key that I edited and the same thing here Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup
- I'm going to reboot and restart BOINC and see what happens, I will edit this post after I do that to say if that was a good idea or a not so good idea

UPDATE that seems to have moved all the traffic to V so it worked....this probably took longer than the uninstall/reinstall but I learned a little by doing it[/b]
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : how to direct BOINC to use a specific disk drive (Message 113891)
Posted 13 Apr 2024 by bill
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thanks, I've had BOINC installed for a very long time (since around the time that SETI started), should I re-install it? or is there a way to adjust that? I suppose I could just move the executable and whatever else I find to the other drive, will that work?
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : how to direct BOINC to use a specific disk drive (Message 113889)
Posted 13 Apr 2024 by bill
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I have multiple drives in my system I would like to direct BOINC and all "sub programs" to use that drive exclusively for all work, not drive c:. This should be possible, it is probably trivially easy, but I haven't found out how after much reading.

BOINC Manager Ver 7.24.1 (X64), wxWidgets Ver 3.2.2
Computer OS Windows 11 pro 64
all projects
Problem: How to specify what disk to use, the Disk menu allows specifying how much, I installed a specific disk (drive V in my case) for BOINC and associated programs and projects to use.

thanks



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