name change

[LAURENU2]

If I change the name or the computer will it mess up the client records like it did in FAD?

[dannychuckle]

I'm not 100% sure but I don't think it affects anything with BOINC/rosetta, Lauren - i was running it on one pc from a mapped network drive, and then started running the same copy of boinc from a different machine a few days later. the jobs appeared in my results under the name of the 2nd machine, so as far as I can tell it doesn't mind name changes...

HTH
Danny

[Marky-UK]

And if you end up with the PC appearing twice in the stats, you can merge them together to get the host totals correct.

[Bok]

Yeah,

it doesn't matter at all, their db will be keyed by the id anyhow not the name, it might create a new node, in which case you can just merge them on the Rosetta site which is easy.

Bok

[dannychuckle]

i don't think it'll even create a new node - didn't for me - it just changed the name listed (in 'my computers'). as you say, it's all tracked by an ID in the BOINC folder which makes life easier! :)

[LAURENU2]

OK thanks guys/gals The name thing was the one thing I hated :swear: about FAD