Posts by SarahTheEntwife

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not synching with BoincBAM
Message 64042
Posted 2 Sep 2015 by SarahTheEntwife
Uninstalling BOINC only removes the BOINC executables and libraries, it leaves the data directory with all work, applications, added projects etc. intact.

Else we can never upgrade BOINC without losing days or weeks worth of work. The BOINC installer uninstalls previous versions before installing the newer version.


Thanks! I guess I'll figure out where it put the data directory in case I ever want to fully uninstall it.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not synching with BoincBAM
Message 63943
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by SarahTheEntwife
Thanks! I disabled BAM altogether since I wasn't getting much out of it anyway and now it's working. I was mostly hoping someone could figure out why it still recognized my account automatically after I'd uninstalled BOINC the first time. I hadn't thought there would be anything left on the computer to tell it what account it should connect to until I signed in again on the new copy.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not synching with BoincBAM
Message 63934
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by SarahTheEntwife
Ok, there it is in Advanced View. I've already synchronized with BAM several times and it doesn't seem to help.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not synching with BoincBAM
Message 63933
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by SarahTheEntwife
I don't seem to have that option under Tools -- just "Add project" (though now I know how to do that; thanks!) and "Event Log". Should I be in Advanced View2
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not synching with BoincBAM
Message 63930
Posted 30 Aug 2015 by SarahTheEntwife
Running Windows 8 on Lenovo IdeaPad
BoincMAnager 7.7.6 x64

I'm not sure what "installing as a service" means in this context -- I downloaded BOINC from this website, along with VMBox.

I downloaded BOINC and manually added Seti@Home and World Community Grid. Those worked fine, but then I decided to register with BoincBAM to make it easier to add projects. BAM correctly shows the work my account has done in the two manually-added projects, but none of the new projects I added show up in BOINC and the BOINC Manager no longer gives me the option to add projects manually or to disconnect from BAM. I waited several days to see if it just took a while for things to update, but no change.

Today I tried uninstalling BOINC and VMBox and reinstalling, thinking I would connect to BAM from the start, but it automatically recognized my account and kept going as if I had never uninstalled it. Is there something else I need to uninstall? Is there some way to get it to talk to BAM correctly without reinstalling it?

Thanks for any help!


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