LHC@home

I have not had a task for sixtrack in the standard LHC (non-virtual) in quite a while but my PC says that it is using 4.6 GB of space.
User name
Viking69
Team name
Norway
Resource share
100
Disk usage
4.62 GB


WHY? What can I clean out w/o damaging the app?

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Let's crunch for our future.

We can't really look at anything since your computer is *hidden* from us.

4.62 GB isn't very much on a HD these days and SixTrack doesn't take up much space either.

It's save to do a project reset via your local BOINC client.

Prior to this you may check the project's web preferences:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/prefs.php?subset=project
To avoid getting the large vdi files used by the VBox tasks you may
- uncheck the subprojects you don't want to run
- set "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?" to "No".

boinc version 7.12.1 is 9.20 MB looking at it on one of mine.

If you ever did run any VB tasks those vdi's can be found

C:\ProgramData\BOINC - Projects - lhcathome.cern.ch_lhcathome

Maybe you're even connected to the old URL.
To cleanup everything of LHC remove the project using BOINC Manager and add the project again using the URL https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/

Thank you.

I had tried the Virtual box on my PC but it caused so many problems I had to remove it.

I did find 2 .VDI files with their associated .XML that were 98 % of the 4.6 GB.

I removed them and it cleaned up the space used.

As to the comment that 4.6 GB is not a lot, it does depend on the size of the HDD.

I do have my PC's hidden as I had been compromised in the past and that is a tiny bit of additional security.

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Let's crunch for our future.

I do have my PC's hidden as I had been compromised in the past and that is a tiny bit of additional security.

Utter nonsense based on ignorance of what constitutes a security risk. Exposing your computers in BOINC does not reveal anything a hacker can use to compromise a host. Additional security it is not. Paranoia it is.