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 > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
