Hi Jacob,

You're right but if I have some WU and I can't reset the project without
losing data?

Thanks

Best regards,
Vitalii Koshura

2015-12-09 15:09 GMT+02:00 Jacob Klein <[email protected]>:

> I'm not sure why I was referenced.
>
> From what I understand, it's up to to the project to clear out any
> unnecessary files. And, if they do not do it properly, the user can issue a
> project reset, which is (now) supposed to clear them all out too. I say
> "now", because there were problems in the past where it'd leave files, but
> I think that's been resolved, either in the master branch, or possibly in
> 7.6.x, not sure.
>
> Regards,
> Jacob
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:13:54 +0100
> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Android application and external storage
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
>
>
> Hi,  Vitalii.
>
>          Good point!    Excellent proposal.    I needed this solved *too*
> in the last 2 years!  :)
>
>          Jacob,  please, let me know  when  need  testing  or
> confirmation-testing!
>           I would *love*  to help with testing this.  I have a *brand new*
> 4-core mobile phone from Gigabyte (GSmart Classic) which supports microSD
> cards... so I can try it there! :)
>
>
> Filip Rydlo, Junior Developer (C++ and QT)
>  at  Advacam . cz   /    Advacam.com
>
>
> 2015-12-09 12:12 GMT+01:00 Vitalii Koshura <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi guys!
>
> I have some questions to you.
> I have Android phone with only 1GB of storage for applications and I use
> BOINC with connected SETI@Home and Einstein@Home.
> And I have a problem that BOINC applications uses > 100 MB that is too much
> for my phone.
> When I remove SETI@Home (there are no tasks for this project at that
> moment
> of time and application uses 120 MB of storage) and then add it again
> SETI@Home downloads 1 new task (I want to repeat: there was no SETI@Home
> tasks before) but I see that now BOINC uses only 80 MB and even with one
> new task! So as I understand there is some old files which can be removed
> without any risks.
> So I see several possibilities to solve such kind of problems:
> 1 - Make an option to remove unused files (even if they will be download
> again later). Here we have risks of using too much traffic but some warning
> can be added here too.
> 2 - Make a possibility to move unused files to external storage (or even
> all files except executables and very neccessary files). I understand that
> than we can't start some project if we have external storage unmounted due
> to some reasons. But the corresponding warning can be here too.
> 2.1 - Maybe it will be a good decision to move to the application folder
> from external storage all neccessary files used by projects.
> Maybe you can add something else.
>
> Also I want to say that this problem is very important to me because I want
> use BOINC and I don't want to remove & readd projects from time to time.
> I've never developed for Android platform but I can try to implement
> behavoiur if you can give me an advice how to do it better because I don't
> know BOINC architect as good as you.
>
> If you have any questions please feel free to contact me anytime:
> email: [email protected]
> skype: aenvampire
> phone: +380689724910 or +380663256789
>
> Thank you all!
>
> Best regards,
> Vitalii Koshura
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