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=== Files to copy from Cumulus 1 into where you are installing MX === | === Files to copy from Cumulus 1 into where you are installing MX === | ||
MX requires all files from "data" and "Reports" folder created by Cumulus 1. You also need "strings.ini" (if you use that), and "Cumulus.ini", plus any other tailoring set-up files, batch processes etc. you might use. | |||
You may be installing MX on a different device to the Windows PC that Cumulus 1 ran on, in that case follow first alternative below. | You may be installing MX on a different device to the Windows PC that Cumulus 1 ran on, in that case follow first alternative below. | ||
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# Alternatively, to run Cumulus MX with your existing Cumulus data, take a back up copy of your existing Cumulus directory, and then unzip Cumulus MX into the original Cumulus folder. This saves you from copying Cumulus 1 files, and removes the need to edit any reference to folders. However, using same folder stops you going back easily to Cumulus 1 if you have an issue, because MX changes the date formats in some files, so that Cumulus 1 can no longer understand them. | # Alternatively, to run Cumulus MX with your existing Cumulus data, take a back up copy of your existing Cumulus directory, and then unzip Cumulus MX into the original Cumulus folder. This saves you from copying Cumulus 1 files, and removes the need to edit any reference to folders. However, using same folder stops you going back easily to Cumulus 1 if you have an issue, because MX changes the date formats in some files, so that Cumulus 1 can no longer understand them. | ||
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#If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter. There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the '''"StartDate="''' line in the [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station|'[Station]']] section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, it will ignore any log files for earlier dates; whilst Cumulus 1 always looks at all log files it finds in the data folder. There are several other differences in settings stored in "Cumulus.ini", but you can address those later through the MX settings screens. | #If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter. There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the '''"StartDate="''' line in the [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station|'[Station]']] section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, it will ignore any log files for earlier dates; whilst Cumulus 1 always looks at all log files it finds in the data folder. There are several other differences in settings stored in "Cumulus.ini", but you can address those later through the MX settings screens. | ||
#See individual log file pages already referenced (access from [[:Category:Log Files|Log Files index page]]) where there is more information for how to edit your '''.ini''' files to work with MX. | #See individual log file pages already referenced (access from [[:Category:Log Files|Log Files index page]]) where there is more information for how to edit your '''.ini''' files to work with MX. | ||
=== Station connections === | === Station connections === | ||