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Re: Deleting a profile
ah, now we're talking a crunching problem so we need to do a bit of delving:

What Operating System
What BOINC version (if not already mentioned)
How do you shut down the computer
How long do you allow the Computer to be on?

Please tell me it's Vista as we have a precooked list of fixes for that.

AND no, BOINC runs multiple jobs simultaneous based on 1 profile provided there is a multi core CPU in the computer. You can change the profile to only use 1, but it does not speed up the processing. Multi-core means you really have multiple processors in your computer.

Added: looks like Vista was reported before in another thread as Lawrence saw.
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I get to about 10% on both tasks but when I restart I am back to scratch again.

This is the problem with Vista. Until we get a new version of BOINC that is 'Vista-ready' you have to install BOINC to a different directory, such as C:\BOINC. Do NOT install to Program Files. It is explained in http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12856

Lawrence

Added: We try to keep everything together by installing BOINC to a directory, then using subdirectories to hold the temporary check point files, etc. Vista does not allow writing to Program Files. So if you install BOINC to Program Files, everything works until you shut down. When you restart, there is no check point to restart from!
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Re: Deleting a profile
What Operating System: Vista
What BOINC version: 5.8.15.0
How do you shut down the computer: complete shutdown
How long do you allow the Computer to be on? 12-14 hours a day

I have two profiles on my device page one made the 5/7 and one made on the 6/7. The first one is from my failed installation of bionic. I have tried to use the merge facility to make one profile on my device page but nothing came of that.

Bionic is installed in a folder on my D drive called bionic. The failed and removed bionic client was installed straight onto the D drive which cased the device to fail. My device page seems still to detect that one.
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Re: Deleting a profile
okay, visit the Vista FAQ (see lawrencehardin post 1 up for link) and review point 5. MS promises to shut down Vista even quicker with SP1, but that's adverse as BOINC needs some time to save models of sometimes 500mb and more.
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Re: Deleting a profile
Hello K-J,
BOINC has 3 named profiles - Work, Home and School. You assign each computer to one of those 3 profiles (well, there is default - - but that is a special case with special rules that can confuse new users). It does not matter how you have changed a profile, as long as it is not assigned to a computer.

The problem of losing your work after a shutdown is a Vista problem. If you are using a separate directory, then there must be a different permissions problem that keeps Vista from writing to the checkpoint file. The possible problems and cures are listed in the Start Here forum in the Vista thread.

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OK I have added the reg key and change the default to home in the hope that the system will remember where I am and that the second device on my profile will disappear.
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Update.

I have tried to change one of the profiles as suggested by Lawrence but the system has ignored that.

I have still two projects with amnesia. I followed the advice about the reg key but when I started up the laptop this morning. I am back to square one.

Any ideas?
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You, K-J, are a challenge.

Don't worry, we love challenges ;-)

Please will you open the messages and click on "copy all messages", then paste them into a post for us.

Thank you.
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Re: Deleting a profile
Checkpoint Saving is an important event for progress to be written permanently to disk. This can be recorded if you have a BOINC client >= 5.8.16 by adding a small text file into the BOINC program directory called cc_config.xml with following content minimum:
<cc_config>
<log_flags>
<checkpoint_debug>1</checkpoint_debug>
<task>1</task>
<file_xfer>1</file_xfer>
</log_flags>
</cc_config>

Make sure the file saved is exactly named as the bolded above.

Restarting BOINC or doing the Advance menu "Read Config File" (Only in 5.8 and above clients), will start the recording of the save points to the message log.

Before closing down the machine, open BOINC Task Tab and write down progress percent and CPU Time accumulated. Go to message tab and write down last time a checkpoint was saved. The lines looks like this:
11/07/2007 09:11:33|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00020_4 checkpointed
11/07/2007 09:29:20|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00034_11 checkpointed
11/07/2007 09:31:22|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00020_4 checkpointed
11/07/2007 09:53:29|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00034_11 checkpointed
11/07/2007 09:54:15|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00020_4 checkpointed
11/07/2007 10:14:15|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00020_4 checkpointed
11/07/2007 10:14:20|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00034_11 checkpointed
11/07/2007 10:35:55|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00020_4 checkpointed
11/07/2007 10:36:50|World Community Grid|[checkpoint_debug] result ld883_00034_11 checkpointed

If you find the time to do this, let us know the outcome.
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Re: Deleting a profile
Since I didn't really understand Sekerobs post Ill do what I was first advised to do.

11/07/2007 10:23:07||Starting BOINC client version 5.8.15 for windows_intelx86
11/07/2007 10:23:07||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
11/07/2007 10:23:07||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3
11/07/2007 10:23:07||Data directory: D:\bionic
11/07/2007 10:23:07||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 [x86 Family 15 Model 72 Stepping 2] [fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 sse3 3dnow mmx]
11/07/2007 10:23:07||Memory: 893.56 MB physical, 2.00 GB virtual
11/07/2007 10:23:07||Disk: 51.84 GB total, 19.56 GB free
11/07/2007 10:23:08|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 226312; location: (none); project prefs: default
11/07/2007 10:23:09||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2007-07-10 14:44:01)
11/07/2007 10:23:09||Host location: none
11/07/2007 10:23:09||General prefs: using your defaults
11/07/2007 10:23:09||Reading preferences override file
11/07/2007 10:23:10|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started upload of file faah1859_d133n741_x2AZ9_00_2_0
11/07/2007 10:23:10|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started upload of file faah1859_d133n741_x2AZ9_00_2_1
11/07/2007 10:23:16|World Community Grid|Restarting task faah1859_d133n718_x2AZ9_04_2 using faah version 528
11/07/2007 10:23:18|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
11/07/2007 10:23:18|World Community Grid|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
11/07/2007 10:23:34|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished upload of file faah1859_d133n741_x2AZ9_00_2_0
11/07/2007 10:23:34|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 1244 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:36|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished upload of file faah1859_d133n741_x2AZ9_00_2_1
11/07/2007 10:23:36|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 4300 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:39|World Community Grid|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
11/07/2007 10:23:40|World Community Grid|Deferring communication for 5 min 3 sec
11/07/2007 10:23:40|World Community Grid|Reason: requested by project
11/07/2007 10:23:42|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01.dpf
11/07/2007 10:23:42|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_d133n887_x2AZ9_01.gpf
11/07/2007 10:23:44|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01.dpf
11/07/2007 10:23:44|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 1302 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:44|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_AD4_parameters.dat
11/07/2007 10:23:47|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_AD4_parameters.dat
11/07/2007 10:23:47|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 894 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:47|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_d133n887.pdbqt
11/07/2007 10:23:48|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_d133n887_x2AZ9_01.gpf
11/07/2007 10:23:48|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 114 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:48|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Started download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_x2AZ9.pdbqt
11/07/2007 10:23:49|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_d133n887.pdbqt
11/07/2007 10:23:49|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 742 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:52|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Finished download of file faah1859_d1 33n887_x2AZ9_01_x2AZ9.pdbqt
11/07/2007 10:23:52|World Community Grid|[file_xfer] Throughput 22784 bytes/sec
11/07/2007 10:23:53|World Community Grid|Starting faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_2
11/07/2007 10:23:53|World Community Grid|Starting task faah1859_d133n887_x2AZ9_01_2 using faah version 528
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