Hey,

I´m getting a strange message on my message tab:

General prefs: from http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/evo/ (last modified 20-Mar-2011 14:26:27)

I don´t have a project with such a URL in my project list so I wonder where the client gets this information? Does anybody know what this project is and why this shows up and actually alters my preferences?

Boinc 7.0.25 with Boinctasks and connected to BAM

It's the EVO project, and it doesn't actually change the preferences, it's where you, at the 20th of March 2011, changed your online preferences and uploaded those to BOINC. That's what that line says.

Whether or not you're now attached to the EVO project does not matter in this.

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I still think this is weird, as the EVO project is retired as far as I know, and how come a retired project which I´m obviously not connected to anymore can just change my preferences?

I did a clean Boinc install some days ago so I guess this comes not from an entry in some xml file.

The URL is stored in global_prefs.xml, it's just that the EVO project has the most up-to-date version (at least last year) as far as the client knows.

I still think this is weird, as the EVO project is retired as far as I know, and how come a retired project which I´m obviously not connected to anymore can just change my preferences?

These are global preferences. Once set at a project, it doesn't matter if that project is going down, dead, or continues to exist, for BOINC to use those preferences. They're uploaded to BOINC and at all projects it's recorded that you set your preferences last at this one project.

There's nothing really that prevents you from going to any other project that your BOINC is attached to and setting new preferences there, then updating BOINC to that effect. It'll do exactly the same thing, when you update BOINC it'll store those preferences as global_prefs.xml in your BOINC Data directory, while the project will propagate this information --of which preferences you use now-- to all the other projects.

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Thanks Ageless, then I believe the issue might be with BAM because what I understand is that preferences set there should override the global_prefs.

So the situation is that when I start Boinc I get the mentioned message, and looking into the global_prefs file I can see the EVO URL. When I synchronize with BAM manually the preferences from there are loaded and I can see http://bam.boincstats.com as the URL.