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 # Restart MX
 # Remove any files that were needed by earlier releases but release announcement says are not needed by the release you are installing
+===The customised approach===
+If you edit a file that is included in the release distribution, you should give it a different name (e.g. I have placed an underline in front of original file name for some of the files I edited in the admin interface), and/or place it in a different folder (e.g. I place all the cumulus templates I have created in a folder called '''cumulus_Templates'''). If you follow this advice, then you won't lose your files by following the advice above, regardless of whether you overwrite or not.
+If you won't listen to best practice advice, and have decided to for example modify the provided Cumulus web templates without allocating new names, then installing the whole release distribution will overwrite your edited file(s) with the standard file content provided by the developer. Therefore you need to do a customised approach where you select which files from the distribution to copy into your installation. If you have changed one or more web templates, you might think it safe just to omit the relevant files in the zip within folder '''web''', but some builds change the files in the '''webfiles''' folder too, and you need to retain consistency.
 == After an update if you use the standard web template files ==