I've just spent 20 minutes trying to post to a thread about the problems I'm having with BOINC 6.4.5 and it seems that I am completely mistaken and it is now ready for public release



More info here.....


Hope you all have better luck than I, and many others, did.

for some days - but it really fouling up. that's why GPUgrid went a step back.

my last GPUgrid WU started with some thousand hours runtime prediction. i'll kill that cat and go for a clean install of some 6.3.x version..

Apparently something is to happen tomorrow, which is why they had to release this client today.
Bug-Fixes are still being written to be included in another 6.4 after that, but in the mean time...

Oh and your guess is as good as mine what tomorrow might bring. The suspense....


So where's the Macintosh client?

Ageless,

I remember you telling that the 6.x client can be installed into a single directory instead of the two directories that it installs to by default.

Any change you can write up a short tutorial about that?

I don't install the 6.x Client in a single Directory but I don't install it in the Default Directories either. I've always installed any Series of Client on a different Drive or at the very least a different Partition if theres only 1 Drive than the C: Drive/Partition. Seemed to me I read somewhere where the Data Files & the .exec Files had to be installed in different Directories for some reason but could be wrong on that so I haven't really tried to install everything in the same Directory.

If Possible I try to set up a separate 10GB Partition just for BOINC & give it it's own Page file Section on the Partition too, thats always seemed to work good for me, the main reason I keep BOINC off the C: Drive/Partition is if the OS gets mucked up and I need to or just want to Re-Install the OS the BOINC Files stay intact & once the OS is Re-Installed all I have to do is Install BOINC again so the .exec's get registered and start BOINC up again where I left off without any lose of Wu's ...

Must've been the very first versions then, as that's no longer possible. The installer checks, or should check, if the directories you chose differ from each other. With thanks to that wonderful OS: Vista.

phew, what a performance.....

because of issues of LHC not liking boinc v.6.x.x, I left off moving from v.5 to v.6 until the issues of not running v.6 with cpdn became the overriding factor.

so after discovering that it won't install to run data the old way, I saw this thread and waited till a climate model finished and I cleared out all my cache and got ready to install. because I like to backup cpdn occasionally I choose to install data in directory /boinc/data/ to make things easier rather than the horrid XP default docs&sets/applications/data/. I rather assumed (or hoped) that installation would sort all the files into their rightful place...

huh! some hope... ...so I moved the project folder into the new data space and the other two folders and still no joy. I could see the clientstate.xml files and the rest of the other stuff like that was still sitting in the root BOINC folder, so I made a safety copy of the new empty clientstate.xml and couple of handfuls of files in the new project folder and replaced them with the matching ones from the old /boinc/ folder and then also copied over ALL the rest of the .xml and .txt files into the new project folder. That did the trick!!

I write this up in case it helps anyone else; but should it have been this much bother??? I'm sure not. My tecchie knowledge is only just enough to scrape me over the hurdle; anyone with less know-how would have struggled.
I don't know but if you lose all the history in the .xml and .log files from each project should you choose the default data location, does this matter much or is it recreated as the client handshakes afresh with each project and BAM! ?

cheers /pg