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 == Configuration File names ==
-=== Cumulus MX ===
+=== Configuration file created when first installing Cumulus MX ===
-Don't rename the '''CumulusMX.exe''' file name as it must use that mixture of upper and lower case.  The main configuration file is always called ''Cumulus.ini'' (it must start with a capital 'C') and is located in the directory in which you installed CumulusMX.exe.  All the characters used within the configuration file must be within ASCII range. No other "Cumulus.ini" files are required. Most of the sections are same in both flavours of Cumulus, but MX does not use [MainForm].
+For those who are not swapping from Cumulus 1, their first use of MX will create a file called ''Cumulus.ini'' found in the same directory as CumulusMX.exe.
+The file will contain an entry for every setting in the admin interface. Each entry will be a parameter in format '''attribute=value''' and the values will be as per defaults except for those which you have edited when first setting up MX.
+These parameters are known as read-write parameters because they can be altered with the settings pages.  Later I will explain read-only parameters, as the name suggests these are entries in the configuration file that have been added directly to that file while MX is not running, and MX can only read these, it cannot update them.
 === Cumulus 1 ===