I recently noticed that my home computer is running off of work preferences even though it says it is using home preferences in my account. I tried to update it but it still continues to use the work preferences. Does anyone have a solution?

I even tried switching it to school preferences and back but no luck.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello rudabega,

what Boinc-version are you running?

It's an issue with the older ones, that should be fixed with the current 4.25.
If you wanna stick with the old, thre is a workaround nevertheless:

Here in this thread is the solution:
Here is a manual solution. Exit out of BOINC. Edit your client_state.xml file. Search for the host_venue tag set. If your file was like mine, there was no host_venue tagset. In that case add the following line

<host_venue>school</host_venue>

just before the last line which should be

</client_state>

Once you have saved the changes, restart BOINC and you will see it now uses the alternate prefs. This change will remain even after your projects contact the server.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

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Saenger,

Thank you very much for the help. I found that tag in the client_state.xml file but it was set to work and would not update to home. I am currently using version 4.19. I was under the impression that when a new version of BOINC became available that it would update automatically, maybe I am wrong. I had heard version 4.25 was out but that it was causing some issues that they thought it would fix.

But anyway, thanks again for the help. I would like to learn more about the coding form the BOINC platform for example what language is used for coding and where might I learn more about it? If anyone has any suggestions let me know.

rudabega

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You have to manually update your BOINC client. 4.25 hasn't caused any issues yet that it was meant to fix, as far as I know

I think you're thinking of seti 4.09 and seti 4.10 as far as that goes.

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