I am a BIGGER MORON!

[Engineer]

Sorry TeAm!

I made a huge mistake a few minutes ago....

It started this afternoon when I installed the Queue on my laptop so that I could transport WU's from/to my work Queue. That part went fine. The bad part is when I started downloading them to the SETI server at home. I would start downloading them and, after it would stop, I would close the queue and restart it because it would send faster that way.....

The sad part....



While I was doing that, apparantely SETIQueue was trashing (throwing away) about 20 to 30 results every time I did that and I didn't notice as I was sorta hypnotized....

Out of 190 WU's to be sent, only 91 made it to SETI....and to top it off, I didn't have "save a copy of all results" enabled on this Queue (I pray that it's ENABLED at work! Please!!!!!)

If not....a moment of silence (and a moment for me to barf) in honor of the brave 99 WU's that have now vanished.....

TAPS!

 

[IsOs]

:Q Sorry to hear about that problem.

 

[Jeff7]

Don't worry; SETI@Home's servers keep track of WU's. If it doesn't get a result from a certain WU after a certain amount of time, it sends it out again. And I heard somewhere that some WU's get sent to multiple computers for increased accuracy of results.

 

[Evadman]

Sorry to hea that Engineer. Today seems to be mistake day

 

[Lithium381]

that bites....i know how it is to botch something when you're just not thinking straight....

 

[JWMiddleton]

I feel your pain!!

 

[Poof]

That's bizarre... Is that the latest version that does that? I'm still back at 1.8 but am considering getting the latest to bring up a fresh queue and phase out the other (rather than doing an upgrade).

 

[networkman]

Uh.. was this in regard to one of your own seperate SetiQs or was this mistake impacting the Federation SetiQ?? :Q Next to the Federation, I think I'm the next most prolific user of that public queue.

 

[Engineer]

I'm running the latest version of the Queue. I looked at the logs and, after restarting the queue, it had multiple entries about removing a "dangling .ini file for such and such result". Not sure why it did this...maybe a bug?

Still sick over it all!

Oh, and it was the laptop Queue that did it as it was the one that I was restarting!

 

[JWMiddleton]

Engineer, A few months back I wiped out ~60 WUs with one wrong key stroke with Norton's Ghost. There was no UNDO key to fix that one! It took me a few day to get over that stupid move!

 

[ElFenix]

wow, i'm glad i've never lost that many units at a single swipe.

 

[Migroo]

Someone tell me where 'Save a copy of all results' is! Please!

Sorry to hear your loss Engineer, thats a lot of WUs

 

[Assimilator1]

Bummer ,that's alot of results to loose Engineer,sorry to hear that

Btw 'save all results' is not set by default..............

Migroo
You access it via your browser ,login & then go to the settings screen ,the option is near the bottom

 

[Migroo]

Thanks Assimilator1

 

[Rattledagger]

Eh, "save a copy of all results" isn't useful here, since that's done is moving result_nnn to the history-folder instead of deleting it after a successful upload... If Setiqueue deleted the result, you can't upload it, and nothing is saved in history-folder.