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Now to import EasyWeather data from a period before you started using Cumulus, close Cumulus and run EasyWeather. It is best if you make a backup copy of your EasyWeather directory before you do any more. | Now to import EasyWeather data from a period before you started using Cumulus, close Cumulus and run EasyWeather. It is best if you make a backup copy of your EasyWeather directory before you do any more. | ||
#In the EasyWeather program use the ''History'' option on the '''Record''' menu. | |||
#Select 'user defined' in '''Search Conditions''' box. Select a ''start time'' before you got your weather station, leave ''end time'' at default of today. | |||
#Click '''Export''' button, tick ''Header'', choose as ''Separator:'' the symbol that is used to separate fields in your [[Monthly log files]]. | |||
#Click '''Export''' button below the separator, complete the 'Save as ...' for a ''text'' file, and wait a couple of minutes (depending on size of file). | |||
#Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in [[Monthly log files]] on how to convert between formats. | |||
#For [[dayfile.txt]], you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maximua or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required. | |||
If you were archiving your Easyweather.dat files, you may need to repeat the whole above process for futher source files, until you have the whole period you want. When Sfws did this process, he tried to merge the exported files before creating the Cumulus logs, but dealing with 2 full years of frequent pre-Cumulus observations meant he had a massive spreadsheet with almost a million cells, and it made separation into day by day or month by month for feeding into the Cumulus logs more difficult. | If you were archiving your Easyweather.dat files, you may need to repeat the whole above process for futher source files, until you have the whole period you want. When Sfws did this process, he tried to merge the exported files before creating the Cumulus logs, but dealing with 2 full years of frequent pre-Cumulus observations meant he had a massive spreadsheet with almost a million cells, and it made separation into day by day or month by month for feeding into the Cumulus logs more difficult. | ||