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Message 40990 - Posted: 8 Nov 2010, 11:04:15 UTC

Beta testing credits are being posted to my two CPDN accounts.

Account #1 - active - accidentally created a year ago - current CPDN work + 9 other active projects.
Account #2 - dormant - earlier CPDN work.

This double crediting was triggered as a consequence of restarting Beta testing after an absence of two years.
The earlier credit total was 126,962. Not only has this been duplicated but all new credits as well on a daily basis.
Obviously there are different email addresses for the two accounts.

Very good - 2 for the price of 1. :) Not bothered about credits but my team leader may be happy
that the team is receiving extra free credits!

What did concern me is the following side effect also noticed the day after restarting Beta testing (last Thursday).

All my 10 active projects (ignoring BBC and SAP) were somehow split into two BOINC groups.
A new cross-project id was created and about 5 or 6 projects changed ids. Leaving the original for the remainder.
It has taken me 2 or 3 days to merge them all back into one cross-project id. WCG is a bit of an oddball as
it seems to keep swapping from the designated id to another one, like on a daily basis.

Ok, two issues as a consequence of returning to Beta testing!

Would be concerned if the double credit posting is fixed but cross-project ids get messed up again. :(

Incidentally, although it was possible to change BBC's CP Id to the new shared one (in that project's account page),
it remains detached from the rest (in BOINC and the CPDN list). This was determined earlier this year when my fellow team member, Strathpeffer, had attempted to do similar. Apparently, BBC data is no longer transferred to CPDN.

However, we can no longer access SAP account pages. A few pages are still available (e.g. About). Just wondered if
the SAP database could be accessed again even for a short period? Strangely, SAP is still listed in BOINC as "live"
rather than "retired".
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