The BOINC manager/client "Reset project" button says this as its tooltip: "Delete all files and tasks associated with this project, and get new tasks. You can update the project first to report any completed tasks." ... So, yes, a "Reset project" action on a project, will lose any in-progress data for that project.
Your description of the problem isn't entirely clear to me. Projects leave files behind intentionally, to not redownload things like application versions and graphics, to my knowledge. If you believe that a project is leaving files behind unnecessarily, though, then maybe you could go to that project's forums to help them troubleshoot. If you believe BOINC itself isn't functioning correctly, then you're posting to the right group I think, but I'm not a BOINC developer. That's all I know. Regards, Jacob Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:41:03 +0200 Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Android application and external storage From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] CC: [email protected] Hi Jacob, You're right but if I have some WU and I can't reset the project without losing data? ThanksBest 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.
