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{{Version badge 1}}Reminder, this FAQ answer is ONLY for Cumulus 1
As of 2017, development of
Consequently, there is no possibility of any new features for Cumulus 1.
Because many positive values are realistic, Cumulus generally will accept those odd increases as a result of accidental knocking of a tipping bucket gauge, due to wind effects on the gauge, or even due to the station electronics generating a rogue reading. The sub-answers below explain how to correct such errors.
=== (Invented rain) Error in today's total ===
Easy - correct today's total using the [[Today.ini#Editing_rainfall_in_today.ini_within_Cumulus | 'today's rain']] editor on the edit menu (select from main screen in Cumulus 1, or find in the MX
=== (Invented rain) Error in date/time of 'Last Tip' ===
If you do this, you will probably need to edit your log files in the '''data''' folder as you may have duplicate entries and/or entries out of order. Your rain totals will almost certainly also be wrong - the total for "today" in particular. See the [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 |FAQ]] entry about correcting rainfall data. If you have only just started using Cumulus, you could delete all of the files in the data folder, and just create a simple today.ini as below. Then when you start Cumulus, processing will start again with just the data from the station's logger.
Note that this method does not work for the Oregon WMR200 station. This station deletes logger entries when they are downloaded, and there is no mechanism for retrieving logger entries for a particular period - it just sends all the entries that it has. {{Version badge 1}}You may be able to circumvent this by creating a today.ini file in the data folder before you run Cumulus 1, with just this in it:
<pre>
[General]
CurrentDay=10
</pre>
Note that Cumulus MX stores some time-stamps '''in ISO format''' (yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss) within '[[today.ini]]', the format example above only works for {{Version badge 1}}Cumulus 1, see the article on the log file itself for specifics.
Change the dates and time to match the point from which you want Cumulus to start downloading data. If the station has already sent the data, this may not work, unfortunately.
{{Version badge 1}}'''Note''' ''StartDate=xxxx'' does ''not'' need to be updated for Cumulus 1 to recognise earlier data in log files in its ''data'' subfolder.
[[File:Badge vMx.png]] However in calculating and updating extremes,
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*after the h2 heading is ''<p>Records began on <#recordsbegandate>. Here are the extremes recorded since then.</p>''; you can replace '<#recordsbegandate>' with the new earliest date typed in as text; and
*at the start of the table is the ''<caption>Records Since <#recordsbegandate></caption>''; replace the label "Records since" with "Cumulus began on" leaving the web tag unchanged.
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