Posts by MartianStorm

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Why isn't there a simple option in BOINC manager to change data directory. (Message 56262)
Posted 25 Sep 2014 by MartianStorm
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Thank you, I really do appreciate your help. You saved me an awful lot of time.
I'm not completely a beginner in Linux, I'm rather not familiar with the BOINC client for Linux.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Why isn't there a simple option in BOINC manager to change data directory. (Message 56261)
Posted 25 Sep 2014 by MartianStorm
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I read through all these before I posted the topic, and as you can see, there is no such "convenient" way of managing it in Linux as there is in Windows (kudos to the developers), even more so, there's not even a HOWTO as there is one for MacOS.
I firmly believe it is not reasonable to expect users who voluntarily contribute to overcome such hurdles to accomplish something so basic.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Why isn't there a simple option in BOINC manager to change data directory. (Message 56243)
Posted 25 Sep 2014 by MartianStorm
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I'm sure there are a lot of people who have SSDs and would want to move the working directory (without any hassle) to a location on an HDD. Why isn't there a simple option to do so?
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : change location of disk usage (Message 56242)
Posted 25 Sep 2014 by MartianStorm
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I'm running Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS based) and I'm trying to figure out how to change the data directory since I won't wreck my SSD to contribute.

I couldn't find a HOWTO or a forum post where it was explained. Could anyone please help me?

Also, why isn't there an option in the BOINC to change it without any hassle? It is not a particularly challenging programming exercise to implement such a feature...



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