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Moving SETI@home's Data Files
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Due to our new security measures to prevent falsified
results, it is best to treat all the data files as a unit. If
for any reason you must move or copy the data files, be
sure to move them all together. The files affected include
key.sah, state.sah, outfile.sah, result_header.sah,
work_unit.sah and result.sah (not all of these will exist at
any one time). You need not move user_info.sah,
version.sah or "SETI@home ReadMe" together with the
others.
Some users download work units and return results from
one computer, but process different work units on
different machines, or save them for later processing on
the same computer. If the computers are all of the same
type and are all running the same version of SETI@home,
then the procedure above will work.
As an alternative, you may move only work_unit.sah or
result.sah between different computers running
SETI@home. If you move only work_unit.sah,
SETI@home will delete and reinitialize the other files, so
the work unit will be processed starting at the beginning.
If you move only result.sah to a different computer, that
SETI@home client will send the result to the server and
then continue processing of its work unit (if it has one).
IMPORTANT: Be sure to completely exit from
SETI@home (by right-clicking on its icon in the System
Tray and selecting Exit from the pop-up menu) before
moving files. Selecting Exit from the maximized
application's File Menu or Close Box does _not_
completely exit.
The SETI@home screensaver will automatically restart
the application when it kicks in, or you may restart it in
the usual way by double-clicking
SETI@home.exe.
That's a copy/paste job from the SETI GUI's release notes. Hope it helps you.
