Messy Assignment Situation

[kladner]

I started comparing my Assignments page on PrimeNet with my Prime95 worktodo.txt file and came up with a considerable list of P-1 assignments which are not in worktodo. Some of them have a good bit of work done on them.

This is probably my own doing in some ignorant fumble. I'm just not sure what to do at this point. These are the ones I've sorted out:

55204043 PM1-L    S2, 5.10%    
58315507 PM1-L    S2, 81.10%
58588147 PM1-L    S2, 41.20%    
58632851 PM1-L    0.00%    
58632857 PM1-L    0.00%
58632971 PM1-L    0.00%    
58637611 PM1-L    0.00%
56991139 PM1-L    S2, 15.40%
58314691 PM1-L    S2, 80.70%
58633073 PM1-L    0.00%
58633163 PM1-L    0.00%
55204067 PM1-L    S1, 14.40%    
55398719 PM1-L    S2, 66.00%

I assume that I can just unreserve the ones with no work done. Is there anything I can do to recover the others?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Dubslow]

Presumably check to see if you have the save files, though I'm not sure of the naming system for those. In order to recreate the assignment line manually, try
http://mersennewiki.org/index.php/Worktodo.txt

That would seem to suggest worktodo lines of

Pfactor=1,2,exponent,factored depth,2

I'm pretty sure Prime95 is smart enough to recognize that there is no hex key and interpret the rest accordingly. In my experience, when I've shut down and restarted P95 with P-1 going, it recalculates the bounds each time, but will use the bounds stored in the save file.

I guess just try using the method above, and if the files are there, great, if not, then it will just restart. I also suspect that when you communicate with PrimeNet, P95 will recover the hex keys, noting that those worktype/exponent combos are assigned to your account (this doesn't make a difference as far as results reporting and credit goes though).

Please correct me if someone finds a mistake.

[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

I'm pretty sure Prime95 is smart enough to recognize that there is no hex key and interpret the rest accordingly.

Without the key, the server will respond with an "assignment not yours" error and Prime95 will delete the assignment from the worktodo file.

You can recover the keys by saving the assignments webpage and inspecting it with a text editor.

[lycorn]

If using IE, right click on your "Assignments" report, and choose the View Source Code option.
Scroll down until you start finding lines similar to (highlight be me):

<trclass="evenrow"><td>asteroid</td><tdalign="center">2</td>
<tdsorttable_customkey="XXXXXXXX"align="right">34179529&nbsp;
<inputtype="checkbox"name="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"value="R"
style="width: 12; height:12;"> </td><tdalign="center">D</td><tdalign="right">LL, 44.00%</td><td>2011-09-27 18:29</td><tdalign="right">37</td><td>2011-11-02 08:51</td><td>2011-11-09 08:51</td><td>2011-11-15 07:01</td><tdalign="right">12</td></tr>



sorttable_customkey holds the exponent, and name the corresponding key.

[kladner]

Thanks to all! Much obliged!

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by lycorn

If using IE, right click on your "Assignments" report, and choose the View Source Code option.

In Firefox 7, it's Tools -> Web Developer -> Page Source

[kladner]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

In Firefox 7, it's Tools -> Web Developer -> Page Source

Thanks, cheesehead. That is indeed what I mostly use.

[Dubslow]

In Google Chrome it's just Ctrl+U :)

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

In Google Chrome it's just Ctrl+U :)

Oh, I forgot to note that the Firefox shortcut is Ctrl+U.

I can remember paths more readily than most shortcuts.

[kladner]

I am embarrassed to say that I managed to screw the pooch in spite of everyone's best efforts. I pulled out the keys from the HTML, and reconstructed the worktodo lines, using existing lines as models.

At that point I should have let PrimeNet refresh. But, thinking I was only dealing with the exponents with some work done, I dumped the 0% lines in the Assignments page. When I pushed Prime95 into communicating with the server, it delivered a raft of "no such assignment" messages and took out all the reconstructed worktodo lines. Perhaps all the parameters didn't match. I don't know. I do wish I'd let things alone until I got PrimeNet to synchronize. Now the water is muddied by an extra change in the situation.

To all who tried to get me through this: Thank You Very Much!

EDIT: Primenet error 43: No such assignment key.

EDIT2: I have a backup of worktodo.txt before I prodded the server, if anyone wants to look it over. I just think I should have waited to do any unreserving.

[Dubslow]

Sure. Show us that file, which sounds like it's the same as the current worktodo file. Also save the "My Assignments" web page as an html file and upload that.