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Hito Bahadur

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Gentlemen,

I'm getting ready to swap parts around my various computers in order to satisfy some requirements of mine. I would like to save the progress of my folding work, but I will be conducting some reformatting of hard drives, switching to different O/Ss etc. Is there any way to save my progress work and then reload it on a "different" computer later?

P.S. Is there a way to stop after work is done in the console only mode?
 
If you were staying wiith the same OS then yes, you can. All you have to do is move the Folding folder somewhere else and when you are done reformatting, move it back and start running it again. I've done that a good number of times. Usually just moved it to a different hard drive though.

Going from say Win2k/XP to Linux, I don't believe you can. I haven't heard of anyone doing that or being successful at it. There may be a way but I haven't heard of it.

If you have not started on this yet, you may want to redo the config so that it asks to connect before sending or receiving a work unit. That way it will stop the current unit after it is done processing and wait for you to give it the okay to send it and get another work unit. At that point you can stop the download of the new work unit or just stop the client and then using the command line, tell it to send the current finished unit and don't download a new one. That way you wouldn't have any work units half done that you won't be able to finish.
 
SmokeRngs,

Thanks for the info. I plan on stay with 2000 or XP for all my computers, except for maybe dual booting one of the computers to Linux. So.... moving the folder should work for me.

Since I am juggling parts in 4 computers, I didn't want to waste folding time or have to wait for a WU to complete to start all the work I have ahead of me.
 
One last question?

Do you copy the whole folder over or just the work folder?
 
Hito Bahadur said:
One last question?

Do you copy the whole folder over or just the work folder?
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i always just copy the whole folder just to be safe
 
You will need to copy the whole folding folder.

If you run folding as a service you will need to re-run the config to make sure it gets installed as a service on the new installation. Other than that it should work fine.
 
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