Can you subvert merging restrictions by editing the hostid in one of the client state files?
There aren't two state files here. The old installation is gone. The machine has been reinstalled. The only thing available to edit is the current hostID and if that were changed back to the old value I imagine that would create issues at the server end (two IDs for the same hardware). At best, the server might activate the old dormant ID, leaving the current ID in limbo land. At worst, the server may detect the two IDs and so retire both of them and allocate a new unique ID to resolve the problem before proceeding. This is just guesswork but I wouldn't be game enough to give it a try to find out :-).
Posting on this thread reminded me that after bringing a computer back to E@H following an extended loan, I had a computer that needed merged with its previous project ID. Then in a burst of too tiredness, I promptly merged it using the standard mechanism instead of seeing if I could force the issue by screwing with the project files.
RE: RE: Can you subvert
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Posting on this thread reminded me that after bringing a computer back to E@H following an extended loan, I had a computer that needed merged with its previous project ID. Then in a burst of too tiredness, I promptly merged it using the standard mechanism instead of seeing if I could force the issue by screwing with the project files.