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When you run the original Cumulus software it displays a screen (see [[Cumulus_Screenshots#Main_Screen]], and from there you navigate to other screens to view data or change settings. MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/terminal/console application which has no user interface. It does write diagnostic information to a [[~~MXDiags_folder~~MXdiags_folder\|diagnostic log]], but many people run MX on a device that has no monitor and so the terminal output (if any) is not monitored. When you successfully start MX, the engine is running, and it continues, until it is terminated by control C (or its equivalent in a Mac environment). Unzip the MX download (from [[Software]] for latest version or from https://github.com/cumulusmx/CumulusMX/releases if you want an earlier release version) so the folder '''CumulusMX''' is the same folder as that which has "Cumulus.ini" in it. The unzip ensures all the files that need to be in sub-folders go into correct sub-folders. Your ~~[[Category:Log Files\|~~log files]] in the [[data folder]] and any NOAA reports you may (they are optional) have created in [[Reports folder]] are available to MX. You should read the page in that log file link, as you might need to edit some items in the '''.ini''' files. For the '''.txt''' files, you need to check that all lines are consistent in using the same character to separate the 3 parts of the date, and the same character is used throughout to separate the items in list of fields. You should read [[:Category:Ini Files]] page, as you might need to edit some items in the '''.ini''' files. For the [[:Category:MX txt Files\|'''.txt''' files]], you need to check that all lines are consistent in using the same character to separate the 3 parts of the date (see , and the same character is used throughout to separate the items in list of fields. *Cumulus 1 will accept any character (except space, a digit, or the character used to separate fields in a list) as a separator for the date parts