what happened to my credits?

michael boshears
michael boshears
Joined: 20 Feb 05
Posts: 2
Credit: 641782
RAC: 1110
Topic 193757

i have been online here since 2005 yet my chart shows activity only since this april. i had a lot more hours.

Dr Who Fan
Dr Who Fan
Joined: 25 Feb 05
Posts: 88
Credit: 2782898
RAC: 428

what happened to my credits?

Quote:
i have been online here since 2005 yet my chart shows activity only since this april. i had a lot more hours.

By default Only computers active in past 30 days are shown on your account.
To see all computers click on Show: All computers.

When I did this it shows all 3 Machines on your account:

Computer ID      Rank      Recent average credit      Total credit      CPU type      Operating system      Results      Last contact

1244816 1 3.27 712 [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac3,6] [AltiVec] Darwin 8.11.0 7 10 Jul 2008 23:36:20 UTC

 828622 2 0.09 36,376 [Power Macintosh Model PowerMac3,6] [AltiVec] Darwin 8.11.0 0 11 Mar 2008 0:13:31 UTC

 620416 3 0.00 9,941 PowerMac3,6 Darwin 7.9.0 0 14 Oct 2006 20:39:19 UTC

p.s. Please only post your question one time.

Gary Roberts
Gary Roberts
Moderator
Joined: 9 Feb 05
Posts: 5872
Credit: 117604236398
RAC: 35218663

The three computers in your

The three computers in your "All Computers" list look like they could actually be the same machine. Certainly there was at least an OS upgrade and perhaps a BOINC upgrade but the hardware may be essentially the same. It might be possible to merge them all into a single Host ID.

If you click on the computer ID of the most recent of your machines, you will get a computer summary for that ID. At the bottom of the summary page you will find a merge function that you can use to attempt to merge this ID with any others that BOINC thinks might actually be the same host. You may not be offered the opportunity to merge the one with the older OS but you should be for the two others.

Of course, if they really are separate machines, you shouldn't try to merge them :-).

If they are duplicate IDs, you can usually avoid this duplication from happening by keeping the configuration files in your BOINC folder rather than deleting them if you are going to have a break from crunching but intend to return at some point in the future. You can always uninstall BOINC but keep what is left of the BOINC folder and install "over the top" when you want to start again. I'm quoting Windows behaviour but I guess it should be something similar for a Mac.

Cheers,
Gary.

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