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It is a relatively simple process to move your Cumulus installation to a different folder on your PC, or in fact a completely different PC. | It is a relatively simple process to move your Cumulus installation to a different folder on your PC, or in fact a completely different PC. | ||
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* Uninstall Cumulus -- Click Start, Programs, Cumulus and select the Uninstall option. | * Uninstall Cumulus -- Click Start, Programs, Cumulus and select the Uninstall option. | ||
* Download the Cumulus setup from | * Download the Cumulus setup from https://cumuluswiki.org/Downloads/CumulusSetup.exe | ||
* Install Cumulus, but during installation change the folder to <tt>C:\Cumulus</tt> | * Install Cumulus, but during installation change the folder to <tt>C:\Cumulus</tt> | ||
* Allow the installation to complete however at the end of the process remove the tick to "Launch Cumulus" as we do not want to do this just yet. | * Allow the installation to complete however at the end of the process remove the tick to "Launch Cumulus" as we do not want to do this just yet. | ||
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* If you customised any of your web templates, take a copy of the 'web' folder from your backup and paste this into <tt>c:\cumulus</tt>; again overwriting the files | * If you customised any of your web templates, take a copy of the 'web' folder from your backup and paste this into <tt>c:\cumulus</tt>; again overwriting the files | ||
'''If you are moving Cumulus to a different PC, you should make sure that all of your Windows settings for date and time formats, decimal and list separators etc are the same on the new PC as they were on the old PC, or you will have problems!''' | |||
Now start Cumulus in the normal way. | Now start Cumulus in the normal way. | ||
It should start-up as | It should start-up as normal; you should not be asked any setup questions and all your data should be there. The quickest way to confirm your data is correct would be to view the graphs. If you can see Temperature Min/Max then you have your historic data. If you can see Outside Temperature data you also have today's data. | ||
If you previously asked Cumulus to process and/or upload additional files to the web you should confirm all the file locations within Configuration, Internet, Files. Specifically check the Local Filenames as these may have moved | If you previously asked Cumulus to process and/or upload additional files to the web you should confirm all the file locations within Configuration, Internet, Files. Specifically check the Local Filenames as these may have moved | ||
