I am running win7 64-bit (all updates) on an i7 CPU with 2 hard disks. BOINC 7.2.42 (x64).


I thought I had set up BOINC so that it was on a partition of my second drive and was saving everything to there. Now I find, however, that it isn't saving data to the second disk, but using the C: drive on my first disk.

Now that I'm temporarily out of work to process, I want to find out where BOINC is storing my work so I can delete the data (already uploaded to the climateprediction.net server) and change the preferences. So:

1. Where does BOINC typically store data on the C: drive if it's disregarding the installation directory? and;

2. Where in my installation files is the data storage instruction stored?

I'd like to change things before my C: drive gets too full.

The location is listed near the start of the messages in BOINC's Event log.

To change it, uninstall BOINC, then re-install.
In the 3rd screen, at the bottom right, is a button labelled Advanced.
Click this, and you get an extra screen, with various options, including where to install the data section of BOINC.

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I think that the proceedure is:

1) Stop and exit from BOINC.
2) Move/Copy ALL of the BOINC data section to the new location.
3) Do the uninstall/re-install, pointing to the new location. This changes things in Windows registry.

When I was using Windows, I partitioned the C: drive into several parts, and put the BOINC program section into drive D:, and the BOINC data section into drive E:.
Then I had a separate hard disk for storage of various stuff, including a Backups folder for BOINC. This was drive F:.