Hello All,

I was in the process of uninstalling an expired AV program which caused a BSOD relating to a sys file, a physical dump took place.

I managed to get around this issue with the AV uninstall, however upon rebooting the machine, both SETI and CPDN reset their projects automatically.

Upon navigating to the project folders, both still had their WUs in there and required exe files as well.

I am perplexed as to why removing an antivirus program and then rebooting would cause BOINC to reset both projects.

Needless to say I lost an absolute truckload of completed work, however that is not the main issue. The issue is that they reset automatically.

I know there is no way to recover the work.

Anyone have any ideas why this would\'ve happened?

Thanks,

Scott

Most likely the client_state.xml file got corrupted in the crash. If BOINC loses that file it forgets almost everything and has to start over.
<br>John Keck -- BOINCing since 2002/12/08 -- <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=191"><img border="0" height="80" src="http://191.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"></a>

It seems that there are quite a few events that cause boinc to forget everything and have to start over...
Cheers,

PeterV.
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&gt; Most likely the client_state.xml file got corrupted in the crash. If BOINC
&gt; loses that file it forgets almost everything and has to start over.
&gt; <br>John Keck -- BOINCing since 2002/12/08 -- <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=191"&gt;<img> border="0" height="80" src="http://191.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"&gt;</a>
&gt;
&gt;

Pity the program doesn't automatically make a backup copy, or runs two versions such as client_state01.xml and client_state02.xml.....

And the annoying thing is, I installed a different AV program and it refuses to install in any other language apart from Spanish! grrrrr

&gt; &gt; Most likely the client_state.xml file got corrupted in the crash. If
&gt; BOINC
&gt; &gt; loses that file it forgets almost everything and has to start over.
&gt; &gt; <br>John Keck -- BOINCing since 2002/12/08 -- <a>
&gt; href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&amp;project=cpdn&amp;userid=191"&gt;<img>
&gt; border="0" height="80" src="http://191.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"&gt;</a>
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt;
&gt; Pity the program doesn't automatically make a backup copy, or runs two
&gt; versions such as client_state01.xml and client_state02.xml.....
&gt;
&gt; And the annoying thing is, I installed a different AV program and it refuses
&gt; to install in any other language apart from Spanish! grrrrr
&gt;
&gt;

All is not lost! I received over 5000 points in credit from the WU that crashed :) :) :)