Best idea is to look at your account status page and find the exponents for that machine on there.
I made the mistake of rebuilding my laptop the other day and while I had backed up everything else, I forgot to backup the directory with ntprime. Argh... fortunately it wasn't too far along on the current exponent. Just rebuilt the worktodo.ini file with the appropriate test=xxxx,xx lines (optionally add the ,1 on the end if it had already completed the p-1 factoring) and let 'er rip. At least on my machines at home I try to be better about at least making weekly backups of the prime directories on there. For my machines at work, they don't suffer the same "wipe and rebuild" fate as many of my home test machines, so I don't bother backing them up much, which of course is why I lost the stuff on my work laptop. :) Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jud McCranie > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mersenne: HD crash > > My hard drive crashed, and I have almost certainly lost all of the GIMPS > data for the exponent I was working on and 4 more I had in the queue. The > initial trial factorization had been done on all of them and the first one > was just about 4 days from completion. What should I do about these lost > exponents? (I don't know which ones they were) _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
