Hello,
I recently changed my password through preferences as I forgot my old password. Anyway, I was in the process of trying to attach to another project when the prompt to enter my email address and password popped up. I entered them and it came up with account not found ... check the email address and password, and try again.

I tried this with no success.

Please help
thanks

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Your Rosetta account information will only work for the Rosetta project. If you wish to attach to another project, you must use the account information for that project.

There is no way to recover passwords.

You can reattach to an existing Rosetta project account using your project key. You can obtain the project key from the original e-mail sent to you when you set up your Rosetta account. If you have lost this e-mail you can recover the account key from your system in the following way -

1) Inside the BOINC directory on your system you will find a file named "account_boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta.xml"

2) Using a text editor such as wordpad open the file named "account_boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta.xml"

3) On about the third line of the file you will see something like "<authenticator>56Ca362e06cafffc701fg7s1fxxxxxxx</authenticator>"

4) Highlight the portion of this line that I have highlighted in color above.

5) Using the copy function (Windows = control-C, Mac = apple-C) copy that text, and close the text editor.

6) Using your browser navigate back to the login page of the project and instead of using the password login, use the account key login and "Paste" (Windows = Control-V, Mac = apple-V) the account key in the account key field.

7) Click ok and that should log you back into the project.

This will work for any project assuming you have been attached to that project with your system and have simply logged out. Simply use the account file for that project in the instructions above instead of the Rosetta account file.

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