PC reset & lost data
20 Mar 2005 12:48:15 UTC
Topic 188632
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I had to reset my pc last night, and after rebooting it, all my work of several BOINC's projects were gone, thought the files were still on the disk (I went to the directories of each project and there were files there!).
How can I recover the on going work? What has happened?
W XP, all BOINC sw updated to each project:
Pirates@home, seti@home,climateprediction, lhc@home, einstein@home,proteinpredictor@home, pirates@home
Thanks.
Manuel Campilho. Portugal
PC reset & lost data
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Try shutting down the boinc program and restarting it. Many people who have boinc loading automatically at Windows bootup seem to be having this problem. Most seem to be finding that if they just exit the boinc program then restart it, everything comes back normally.
Add 1 more to the list. I
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Add 1 more to the list. I just downloaded and installed last night. It has reset my PC 3 times. I am running Win XP Pro. I uninstalled boinc. Will check back some time later to see if it is safe.
Reset and detach are last
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Reset and detach are last resort actions....Update is the action you would normally use to see if a simple update will solved your problem .
If you are updating, suspend BOINC, EXIT, go to windoze add remove programs, in the control panel, uninstall old BOINC, make sure you are in the correct directory, install new BOINC
Link to Unofficial Wiki for BOINC, by Paul and Friends
> Reset and detach are last
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> Reset and detach are last resort actions....Update is the action you would
> normally use to see if a simple update will solved your problem .
>
> If you are updating, suspend BOINC, EXIT, go to windoze add remove programs,
> in the control panel, uninstall old BOINC, make sure you are in the correct
> directory, install new BOINC
>
Well you just hit the target: Supertramp was/is one of my favorite 'sources' of mucic.
I am installing 4.25 and will report later. Can it have to do with XP SP2? Just a question ... I had it installed before (after resisting for a long time and having uninstalling it before!)
I Think I may have bit the dust!
Bye
Hey guys, My question relates
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Hey guys,
My question relates to this problem, but in a different senario. Maybe someone can help out. I am running E@H on a linux box made of parts from previous upgrades. It has quite a few hardware problems, and the 1.6 gig hd I gave einstein to work with, died. I gave it another HD to work with, but the results I had are obviously gone. Is there a way to re-request the work that it was doing? Or is that work job SOL and will fail out?
Thanks guys.
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Team ShallowThought
> and the 1.6 gig hd I gave >
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> and the 1.6 gig hd I gave
> einstein to work with, died. I gave it another HD to work with, but the
> results I had are obviously gone. Is there a way to re-request the work that
> it was doing? Or is that work job SOL and will fail out?
Nope, no way to get the same work back. Any that was completed and uploaded should be found by the assignment server before it expires, but any that was still being processed will just be sent to someone else once it expires.
darn...ok, thanks Darren...
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darn...ok, thanks Darren...
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Team ShallowThought
It would seem that it would
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It would seem that it would be easy to allow Boinc to rerequest the work
The job is saved with Identifying name (and due date) why can't it just resend on request?(with or without new due date)
If you allow a new due date it might be prudent to limit the number of extentions (one or possibly two should be plenty) but resending without extention (giving same due date) will allow a good number of mishap aborted jobs to be done faster (eliminating the delay for expiration)
I know because I had to reinstall Boinc and my details now list "client error" (or some such message) on two aborted jobs. The progress was still there so if I could have rerequested the jobs they could have started from where they left off saving 48% and 24% of the work on 12 - 15 hour jobs (thats a lot to be lost)
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a Chicago user who likes to be usefull
> I had to reset my pc last
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> I had to reset my pc last night, and after rebooting it, all my work of
> several BOINC's projects were gone, thought the files were still on the disk
> (I went to the directories of each project and there were files there!).
> How can I recover the on going work? What has happened?
> W XP, all BOINC sw updated to each project:
> Pirates@home, seti@home,climateprediction, lhc@home,
> einstein@home,proteinpredictor@home, pirates@home
> Thanks.
> Manuel Campilho. Portugal
>
I had the same problem, my pc rebooted, now it says I'm "disconnected" even though I am not, and no projects I was working on were showing. Please help.
Thanks,
Don Brown
> > I had to reset my pc last
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> > I had to reset my pc last night, and after rebooting it, all my work of
> > several BOINC's projects were gone, thought the files were still on the
> disk
> > (I went to the directories of each project and there were files there!).
> > How can I recover the on going work? What has happened?
> > W XP, all BOINC sw updated to each project:
> > Pirates@home, seti@home,climateprediction, lhc@home,
> > einstein@home,proteinpredictor@home, pirates@home
> > Thanks.
> > Manuel Campilho. Portugal
> >
>
> I had the same problem, my pc rebooted, now it says I'm "disconnected" even
> though I am not, and no projects I was working on were showing. Please help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don Brown
If you are using boinc ver. 4.25, try to exit the manager and then restart it. There have been reports that says that when the manager is auto-started with windows it won't show anyting. Normally a restart of the manager fixes this.