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Message 7250 - Posted: 11 Jan 2005, 14:43:31 UTC

Not a big issue but I was trying to merge a computer which was reinstalled and upgraded, when in the merge Window no other host was shown to click on.
I have 5 other hosts and not one was shown...

Is this a site error or is this not possible anymore...
Somewhere I read someting about null hosts but these hosts are all not null hosts...
Thanks for any help.


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Message 7259 - Posted: 12 Jan 2005, 1:23:35 UTC

If your upgrade was a change of processor-type or OS type then the system considers it a different computer. ie you cannot merge a win98 with an xp or an intel with an amd.

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Message 7280 - Posted: 13 Jan 2005, 23:37:16 UTC - in response to Message 7259.  

Thanks Pete49,
This helped me. The processor did not change, but the OS did ... --&gt; Was win2k upgraded to XP... still It would be a nice thing to be abler to merge those results in order to avoid getting a lot of hosts in case one upgrades a lot :)


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Message 7282 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 10:00:59 UTC

Eventually the server will have no more data for a host that is not in use. After this happens the host can be deleted from the computer page. The problem is with the size of CPDN workunits it may take a year or longer for the data to be removed.
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Message 7284 - Posted: 14 Jan 2005, 11:11:47 UTC - in response to Message 7282.  

&gt; Eventually the server will have no more data for a host that is not in use.
&gt; After this happens the host can be deleted from the computer page. The problem
&gt; is with the size of CPDN workunits it may take a year or longer for the data
&gt; to be removed.
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It's worth adding that some users would regret losing information about work done - the proportion of failures, the parameters of the models, the results where the WU has been crunched by another machine, etc. So keeping the results on the server is a plus in most respects.

The situation is very different to SETI, though I know that even there some users would like to be able to view their results for longer.
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Message 7387 - Posted: 19 Jan 2005, 22:21:34 UTC - in response to Message 7284.  

I've got the same problem with merge 2 pcs and there is 1 pc without any info on my list without any credits that i would like to remove too.
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