when I ran the boinc_4.02_i686... executable, I figured it was going to unpack and install to another directory, but it just started running in the current directory. So now I\'ve got the boinc exec and a bunch of .xml files, as well as the slots and projects directories just sitting in my downloads folder. Is it safe to move everything to another directory?

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it should be OK, I guess you can stop BOINC, backup things, and move as an experiment. I believe BOINC will tell us (CPDN) the full path after it has established them (CPDN works on relative paths for the most part)