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How do I go about creating another Folding account without interfering with my current account? I want to add to another team without stopping my current team results. Thanks

Job results remain with the account and team for which the results were posted initially. If you start folding for another team, the previously returned results will remain with your original team. To start folding for a different team, just change team, and only future results will be counted to the new team. There is no need to change accounts.

I don't want to stop folding for my current team. I want to contribute separately to another team.

If you want to fold for two teams simultaneously, I think you need to have two computers. There's one team setting that applies to the entire client, so there doesn't appear to be a way to set up 1 client with two groups that each have a different team. So you'd have to have two completely separate clients, each with their own team setting, and I think that would require separate computers.

I do have separate computers.

So change the team on one of them.

And yes, I suppose that would require setting up a new account.

Use one email for one account, use another email for another account. Use first account on your first PC, use second account on second PC. I'm not sure if I am missing something here, but this is THAT simple

The two accounts MUST have different passkeys. If they have passkeys.

Also an account to connect to the F@h server is only required if you want to remotely control and monitor a system in v8. Without losing in you ca set whatever username, team, and passkey values you want in the web control.

As a note, passkeys are qualified as a username and passkey pair. You can use the same on a different team without having to qualify a passkey.

Joe_H wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 8:17 pm As a note, passkeys are qualified as a username and passkey pair. You can use the same on a different team without having to qualify a passkey.

Fun fact : When I signed up for Folding at Home 6 years ago, I accidentally created two accounts, and when I started folding, I mistakenly used the username from one and the password from the other. Oddly enough, it works perfectly that way.

Yes, that has been documented multiple times, but people don't notice. The only connection between a username and a passkey is that if you use the same username and email address when requesting a passkey, you will get the same passkey. It is not required that the username and passkey match that stored information when entered into a client. Just that whatever username and passkey pairs are used take 10 WUs completed to be qualified for the bonus.

Some years ago when it was possible to search the stats database just by passkey, some teams would have contests where all members competing would use the same passkey. Each would use their own username. I don't recall the reasons for removing that search, but it was probably related to the impact that type of search had on the database.