Posts by John Sabal

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : URL not recognised (Message 1978)
Posted 16 Dec 2005 by John Sabal
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Joop -

I was having the same problem -- the URL wasn't being "recognized as a BOINC-based project". It IS a BOINC issue, not a SETI issue, and I believe we stumbled upon a "new" bug.

To fix it:

1. Uninstall BOINC. 2. Go to My Computer > Local Disk C: > Program Files and manually delete the BOINC folder. 3. Restart your machine. 4. Download and install the BOINC software. 5. Enter the URL(s) of the project(s) to which you want to attach and it should proceed correctly, continuing to email/password screen.

Good luck!

John
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't attach -- Bad URL?? -- help! (Message 1977)
Posted 16 Dec 2005 by John Sabal
Post:
Bill --

FYI --

In your reply yesterday to eagleye (who had a similar problem) you said this was not a BOINC issue. I believe it is, as I wasn't able to get BOINC to attach to ANY project. It seems it's a new (?) bug.

One more time:

When BOINC asked for the URL of the project, I entered it (e.g., http://setiathome.berkeley.edu) and the very next screen said "not a BOINC-based project." The email/password screen never came up.

3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't attach -- Bad URL?? -- help! (Message 1974)
Posted 16 Dec 2005 by John Sabal
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Did you set up a password in each project acct?????

It doesn't even let me get that far -- I enter the URL and it just comes back "not a BOINC-based project."


You have to go to the site for each project you want to join, and set up a password. The URL to use in attaching is at that site. THEN you come back to BOINC Manager and say "attach to project".

You need to paste the URL you are trying to use here, so we can verify it's the right one for that project. We can't help without information.


Bill -- I HAD accounts, passwords, and proper URLs for SETI and Rosetta but, for some reason, BOINC wasn't recognizing the URLs.

I got the answer to my problem at the SETI site: 1. Uninstall BOINC. 2. Go to "Program Files" and delete the BOINC folder. 3. Restart. 4. Download and install new copy of BOINC software. 5. Attach normally.

I had tried uninstalling BOINC and then reinstalling to no avail. The crucial step was deleting the BOINC folder after uninstalling.

Thanks -- up and running now --
John
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't attach -- Bad URL?? -- help! (Message 1967)
Posted 16 Dec 2005 by John Sabal
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Did you set up a password in each project acct?????

It doesn't even let me get that far -- I enter the URL and it just comes back "not a BOINC-based project."
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Can't attach -- Bad URL?? -- help! (Message 1831)
Posted 13 Dec 2005 by John Sabal
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Does anyone have a clue why, when I try to attach to SETI or Rosetta, I get the following error: "The URL you supplied is not that of a BOINC-based project. Please check the URL and try again." (I know I'm cutting and pasting the URLs correctly.)

I'm running 5.2.13 BTW.

TIA,

John Sabal



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