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==Editing in Cumulus==
The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''. This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen. Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions.
You can use this editor to correct individual values by overtyping. The same editor will '''Create missing''' complete days, or import earlier observations into dayfile.txt, in both cases reading and calculating from [[Monthly_log_files]], and the procedure is explained in that Wiki topic in greater detail than is possible in the ''Help''. If just some fields are missing from a particular row (meteorological day) on day file, then there is a [[Monthly_log_files#Using_Monthly_logs_to_deal_with_shorter_.28or_incomplete.29_dayfile.txt_records_for_particular_dates | workaround]] as at all current versions (up to 1.9.4) you can only import from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole date (row) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''.
==Manipulation outside Cumulus==
The file is called <tt>dayfile.txt</tt> which can be viewed in a text editor or imported into various database systems or spreadsheets to manipulate as you wish. Just remember that Cumulus updates it as part of the rollover process, so it is not a good idea to work on it when Cumulus has just been restarted or around the midnight/9am/10am local rollover time.
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