Unfortunately, that is not helping. This has been driving me crazy tonight... Without even seeing this thread, earlier tonight I noticed that the preferences dialog in BOINCMgr was showing a link to WCG as the source of the settings, I tried the usual stuff to set it back to BAM, I thought that fixed it, then it went back to WCG within the hour. Tried a few more times, the same. So, I started "debugging"...
I updated my BOINC Manager to the latest 7.6.33, I made sure that on WCG I set the DEFAULT profile to whatever means "use the defaults already on your machine" since there is no NONE (for whatever reason my DEFAULT there was set to CUSTOM with some custom settings), then I made sure to change some settings on BAM (so, BAM is now the latest), then I updated my BOINCMgr with BAM, made sure that the Options dialog showed both that it is using web prefs from BAM and that the right prefs were in the dialog, then started staring at the Events window to see what will happen. Without me ever touching anything, a few minutes later, BOINCMgr started using settings from WCG even though they are marked at an older time stamp!!!
Here are the relevant lines from the log, annotated:
. . . . (earlier I had set WCG to "use my machine defaults", therefore this...)
1/30/2017 9:10:14 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 30-Jan-2017 19:43:28)
1/30/2017 9:10:14 PM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
1/30/2017 9:10:14 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
. . . . (now, I updated TASK SWITCH value on BAM from 60min to 120min, then forced an update in my client to use BAM)
1/30/2017 9:14:02 PM | | General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 30-Jan-2017 21:13:37)
. . . . (right after this, I checked, and the value was 120 and the WebPrefs source was set to BAM properly; then I started simply watching the Events windows)
1/30/2017 9:20:23 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 30-Jan-2017 19:43:28)
1/30/2017 9:20:23 PM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
1/30/2017 9:20:23 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
. . . . (what??? Nobody changed anything, as the time stamp shows, yet BOINC started using prefs from WCG. And, even though it claims to use "your default", everything is now reset to some strange default, like my 120 is now 30, along with most other settings I know I have differently on BAM. And, the Prefs dialog shows the WCG URL as the source.)
This is crazy! And, this is not specific to this one machine. It is certainly happening on 4 of my 10 machines; I have not looked at the other 6, yet. Frustrated.
Thoughts? Whom to blame? BOINCMgr? WCG? Some stale file on the clients that need to be deleted? Disconnect/Reconnect WCG? Disconnect from all, uninstall BOINC, purge all local BOINC data, reinstall everything from scratch?
Tuna