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Message 4488 - Posted: 22 Sep 2004, 15:09:52 UTC

I\'m running BOINC 4.09 on 5 computers. CP is 75%, SETI is 25%. 4 of my computers are at home and one is at work.

Every time I change the \"Location\" of my work computer to be \"Work\" on the cp.net web site, it gets put back to \"Home\" when I select \"Update\" in the BOINC client. The message I get in BOINC is: \"Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults\".

I thought it was supposed to be the other way around: i.e., a change on the web site propagates to the client. It\'s certainly not working that way. How do I change my computer\'s \"Location\" inside the BOINC client ? or is this a bug ?

My computer ID is 8397.

I have the exact same problem with two of my home computers. They both think they are \"Work\". If I change their \"Location\" to he \"Home\" on the cp.net web site, they change back to \"Work\" when I update them in the BOINC client.

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Message 4559 - Posted: 23 Sep 2004, 18:51:11 UTC

That's a bug in the BOINC client (there's some other posts about this issue). For some hosts, the Work/Home/School location wouldn't stick. Beaware that even if they do stick, there's another bug where BOINC would sometime just choose to ignore Work/Home/School preferences and applies General preferences to all your hosts no matter what location it's under on the web page.

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Message 6152 - Posted: 16 Nov 2004, 13:53:21 UTC

I also have this problem. Is there any plan to fixing it?
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Message 6164 - Posted: 16 Nov 2004, 16:47:48 UTC - in response to Message 6152.  

&gt; I also have this problem. Is there any plan to fixing it?
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Are you using v4.13(available from the download page)? I think this fixed it.
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Message 6165 - Posted: 16 Nov 2004, 17:25:11 UTC
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I don't think it's fixed in 4.13 and I doubt if there'll be another release of BOINC until the version that separates out the GUI interface and runs the core client as a service.
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Message 6498 - Posted: 1 Dec 2004, 12:35:53 UTC - in response to Message 6164.  

&gt; &gt; I also have this problem. Is there any plan to fixing it?
&gt; &gt; kws
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&gt; Are you using v4.13(available from the download page)? I think this fixed it.
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Yes, I am using v4.13 - it didn't fix it.
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Message 6502 - Posted: 1 Dec 2004, 20:12:35 UTC - in response to Message 6498.  

&gt; &gt; &gt; I also have this problem. Is there any plan to fixing it?
&gt; &gt; &gt; kws
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&gt; &gt; Are you using v4.13(available from the download page)? I think this fixed
&gt; it.
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&gt; Yes, I am using v4.13 - it didn't fix it.
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It is fixed in the 4.5x clients. There are still other bugs though so I do not recomend updating at this time.
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