Reinstalling Boinc

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:23 am

Ok now GertII is more or less back in business how do I get her back to crunching?

As advised I kept my Boinc folder through all the fun and games of reinstalling XP so I have everything from before.

Obviously the majority of my WU's will have expired

and I'm totally behind on optimised clients and such like.

So what do I do now?

Francis McDermott · Post by **Francis McDermott** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:10 am

Glad to see you are back Jackie :D

Once the Boinc folder is in place, you just need to reinstall over the top of it. It won't overwrite any project info so when you start it up again it will advise you to abort old WUs and download some new ones for you.

(I've reinstalled Boinc over the top of the original files when changing to a service install and had no problems.)

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:45 am

I would just forget about the BOINC backup and just go a nice clean install of the latest BOINC client. If you sign up to BAM also this will make it easier for you to attach back to the projects you want to rather than having to manually type in all those Urls and passwords etc etc