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ProfileJoseph Stateson
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Message 92242 - Posted: 20 Jul 2019, 16:42:00 UTC

I have possibly 100 work units at (for example) "projects/seti.old" and was wondering if I can simple move them into "projects/seti" and restart BOINC client and allow them to finish. I vaguely remember trying something like this a year ago and I lost all the works units, not just the few I tried to copy but I think the problem then was an OS change which didn't happen here.
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Message 92244 - Posted: 20 Jul 2019, 17:07:18 UTC - in response to Message 92242.  

No. All you see in the .old folder will be the data files. You would need to re-create all the <workunit> and <result> metadata in client_state.xml as well. That would be almost impossible to do without making a mistake which would be even more problematic than the current situation.
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