Amending dayfile: Difference between revisions

Basically, this utility will create a new '''dayfile.txt''', if there is already a file with that name it gets renamed, and existing fields are copied across. If there are some dates missing in an existing file it will create new lines ''if data for those missing lines can be derived'' from data already in [[Standard_log_files]]. If an individual line in an existing '''dayfile.txt''' is shorter than the number of fields expected in the current MX release, then '''CreateMissing.exe''' will calculate daily values for the missing fields based on data already in [[Standard_log_files]].

'''You must have installed MX in order to use this utility''', as some information in [[Cumulus.ini]] and some [[Software#By_Mark_Crossley|.dll files]] are shared between CumulusMX.exe and CreateMissing.exe .

''It is important to understand'' that when you start MX interactively, or as a service, it reads the contents of '''dayfile.txt''' into an internal array (held in random access memory - RAM).  Therefore, if you run '''CreateMissing.exe''' while ''CumulusMX.exe'' is running, any updates to the file are ''not'' seen by MX until that software is restarted.  Release 3.20.0 (beta build 3199 onwards) adds a new "Utils" menu with a new option to refresh the internal values without restarting MX.