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<title>Participating in multiple projects</title>
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<h2>Participating in multiple projects</h2>
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You can join a second and subsequent projects as follows.
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<li> Visit the new project's web site and create an account.
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Note: if you wish, you can use different email, user name or password
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than those of your first account.
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<li> Receive an email containing an account ID (a long random string).
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<li> Visit the original project's web site and log in.
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Click on Edit Preferences.
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Click on Add Project.
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Enter the URL of the second project,
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and the new account ID.
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<li> Enter resource shares for each of the projects.
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This procedure adds the new project to your preferences,
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which will be propagated to all your hosts.
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There is no need to perform any manual operation
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on each host.
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<h3>How preferences are stored</h3>
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Your preferences are stored on BOINC servers.
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When your hosts communicate with a server they get the
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latest preferences, and they pass along these preferences
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to other servers.
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Thus, when you change your preferences on one project's web site,
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these changes will quickly spread to all your hosts,
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and to the web sites of all the other projects in which you participate.
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If you change your preferences first at one project
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and then at another, the second changes will overwrite the first.
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To avoid this, do all your edits at one project.
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Some projects may provide a web interface
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for editing their project-specific preferences.
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In this case it may be necessary to edit preferences at different sites.
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To avoid overwriting edits,
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wait until previous edits have propagated to a site
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before editing preferences there.
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