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Detaching and reattaching projects
(Message 109235)
Posted 15 Jul 2022 by chrisA Post: There should be an option somewhere to remove any account manager you have installed but I can't remember where it is. Thanks Bryn. Yes, it was under Tools. All sorted now. |
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Detaching and reattaching projects
(Message 109215)
Posted 14 Jul 2022 by chrisA Post: I am using BOINC 7.16.20 and Windows 10 (64bit). As some of you may know, there have been problems with WCG during its transition from IBM to the Krembil Research Institute. One of these problems has been the generation of spurious messages advising users that the URL for the project has changed. Until recently, the advice was to ignore such messages. Recently, however, the advice to certain users only (if I have understood things correctly) is that they may need to detach then reattach the project to finally stop these messages being generated. However, within BOINC, the "Remove" button for WCG (and for SETI) is greyed out although for other projects it is not. Advice from the WCG forum is that I must have attached these projects using an account manager (such as BAM). Whilst I do use BAM for my stats, I have no recollection whatsoever of using anything other than BOINC to attach projects and when I look at "My Projects" within BAM, it is completely blank with no projects listed. (I joined SETI in 2002 and WCG in 2007 - I don't believe I started with BAM stats (if my memory is correct) until sometime later). Q1 Does the fact that the "My Projects" page has nothing listed confirm my view that I did not use BAM to attach WCG (and Seti)? Q2 If so, how do I detach WCG in such circumstances? Any thoughts welcome. Thanks. |
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"Failed to add project [GPUGrid.Net] Please try again later"
(Message 105611)
Posted 3 Oct 2021 by chrisA Post: Thanks Richard, that is helpful. |
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"Failed to add project [GPUGrid.Net] Please try again later"
(Message 105609)
Posted 3 Oct 2021 by chrisA Post: I am running BOINC ver 7.16.11 (x64) under Windows 10. It has been many years since I attempted to add a new project but, as I recall, it always went without a hitch. Recently, however, I have been trying to add GPUGrid.Net but, for a couple of days, my BOINC manager keeps returning the same message "Failed to add project. Please try again later". The Event Log reports: 03/10/2021 11:28:56 | | Fetching configuration file from https://www.gpugrid.net/get_project_config.php 03/10/2021 11:28:58 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 03/10/2021 11:29:01 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. However, the server status on the GPUGrid website seems to indicate that all the servers are running fine. Any help would be welcome. Thank you. |
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Zone Alarm has started writing thousands of files to disk
(Message 87566)
Posted 10 Aug 2018 by chrisA Post: I have not used Zone Alarm in about 7 years. One of the reasons I quit using it was for the reason you stated - (using up lots of hard disk space). Unfortunately, as far as I can see, the free version of ZoneAlarm Firewall doesn't allow access to such settings; most seem to restricted solely to the operation of the firewall. But thank you for taking the time to offer the suggestion. |
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Zone Alarm has started writing thousands of files to disk
(Message 87540)
Posted 9 Aug 2018 by chrisA Post: I was just about to report that, after more than 12 hours, everything was fine and there was no sign of a SandBlastBackup folder anywhere to be seen. I nearly spoke to soon! I had cause to do a computer restart and, guess what? A SandBlastBackup folder was created and, within 10 minutes, over 800 files had been written to it amounting to nearly 30MB. It is starting to look as if ZoneAlarm free firewall may have to go (after nearly 20 years). It will be interesting to see whether other BOINC users with ZoneAlarm Free Firewall encounter this problem - I believe it has only become an issue since the latest update of ZoneAlarm. I discovered it relatively quickly because the hidden folder was created on a relatively small partition (just 50GB) which had only 35GB available for SandBlastBackup to fill up. Had it been created on a 2TB drive, I might not have noticed anything untoward for many, many months or even years! |
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Zone Alarm has started writing thousands of files to disk
(Message 87530)
Posted 8 Aug 2018 by chrisA Post: Thanks Jord and RobSmith. Your comments got me thinking again about this as things had become somewhat more urgent - my drive was completely full and none of the files could be deleted. I contacted ZoneAlarm support and, to cut a long story short, it appears that even the free version of ZoneAlarm firewall has some antiransomware components to it; it is possible that activity by BOINC was being incorrectly identified as a ransomware attack (pretty much what RobSmith suggested). To delete the files, I would have to uninstall ZoneAlarm and then reinstall - though I was warned that this would probably create a new SandBlastBackup folder which would start filling up with files again. I did as suggested and as soon as ZoneAlarm was removed, the entire SandBlastBackup folder and its contents disappeared. ZA has now been reinstalled and for some reason that I do not understand, a new SandBlastBackup folder has not been created (yet!). Keeping fingers crossed. With hindsight, I accept that the Title to this post is completely wrong - BOINC wasn't responsible for writing thousands of files to my hard drive! Thanks to both of you for your help. |
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Zone Alarm has started writing thousands of files to disk
(Message 87521)
Posted 8 Aug 2018 by chrisA Post: SandBlastBackup is NOT a BOINC directory. As far as I can find it's from ZoneAlarm Firewall / SandBlast Agent. That directory holds a copy of all files on disk in case you get hit by ransomware. Yes, I found a reference online to ZoneAlarm Firewall too. And I actually use the basic (free) version of ZoneAlarm which, as far as I know, doesn't offer any special ransomware protection. And it only seems to be BOINC log files that are there. |
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Zone Alarm has started writing thousands of files to disk
(Message 87519)
Posted 8 Aug 2018 by chrisA Post: I've been running various projects under BOINC for many years with very few problems. Today, I started receiving warnings that one of my hard drives was running out of space when, in fact, it should still have had plenty of space. Upon investigation, I discovered a hidden folder called SandBlastBackup. This folder appears to have been created about a month ago and, since then, has had almost 90,000 txt files written to it. Some files are just a few kilobytes, others are a couple of megabytes. Sometimes just a couple of files are written each minute but, on one occasion, over 1300 files were written in a minute. I have opened a random selection of these files and all seem to be BOINC log files of some sort or another. Many of these files "overlap" the information contained in them. The drive on which these files are being written is the one on which BOINC is running. I do no recall having done anything that would cause this to happen. I am currently running BOINC 7.8.3 (64 bit) under Windows 10. Any thoughts on how I can stop this happening would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Using new drive and OS
(Message 39728)
Posted 20 Aug 2011 by chrisA Post: Yes, that was the problem. I moved my "account_xml" files to the BOINC Data folder (which, as suggested, was hidden) and everything seems to be up and running again. Many thanks to all those who contributed. |
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Using new drive and OS
(Message 39725)
Posted 20 Aug 2011 by chrisA Post: Correction to my last post - I wasn't looking at the event log. The event log says I am not attached to any projects. Does this mean that I have the "account_xml" files in the wrong place? |
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Using new drive and OS
(Message 39724)
Posted 20 Aug 2011 by chrisA Post: [quote]...pasted my "account_xml" files (which I had copied earlier) into the BOINC folder... Into the BOINC data folder or the BOINC program folder? I pasted into the BOINC folder in "Program Files". Within the BOINC folder there is one other subfolder called "locale". I don't seem to have a data folder. Nor are there there any start messages - just says "No notices at this time". |
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Using new drive and OS
(Message 39722)
Posted 20 Aug 2011 by chrisA Post: For years I have been running various projects under BOINC using Windows XP. I recently switched to Windows 7 (64 bit) and took the opportunity to install a larger drive. Once Windows 7 was up and running, I downloaded BOINC (64bit) and pasted my "account_xml" files (which I had copied earlier) into the BOINC folder. Nothing, however, is running so clearly I have not done enough. Do I still need to attach (reattach?) the individual projects as well? Anything else? Any advice welcome. Thanks. |
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More than one PC
(Message 25917)
Posted 8 Jul 2009 by chrisA Post: Many thanks. |
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More than one PC
(Message 25915)
Posted 8 Jul 2009 by chrisA Post: Thanks for that advice. I followed what you said and the new PC (which I did have to rename for network reasons) is now listed, together with all my previous results. One additional question however. Having copied the account_*.xml files to the new PC, do I need to delete them on the old one? (I still intend to run the same projects on both PCs). |
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More than one PC
(Message 25909)
Posted 7 Jul 2009 by chrisA Post: I've been running various projects under BOINC for years on a single (now getting elderly) PC. I have recently built a new one and "cloned" the old hard drive onto a new drive for the new PC. The intention, however, is to continue to use the old PC as well. Do I need to do anything to my account details or the like to take this change on board? (Not sure if it matters, but both PCs will have the same "name" even though their hardware is entirely different). Many thanks. |
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