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#If you are installing MX on a PC that has been running Cumulus 1, then there are actually 2 alternatives to choose between:
##Just create a new directory (recommended name CumulusMX) and unzip the contents into it. Then copy over your existing data files and your [[Cumulus.ini]] file, and any other configuration files that you may have created (e.g. '''[[strings.ini]]''', twitter.txt etc). In this case you will need to edit that copied across "Cumulus.ini" so any lines that referenced the old folder are changed to reference the new folder, and you may need to edit a few other items either now, or via the settings functionality in MX user interface. The big advantage of this approach is that anytime you are not running MX you can go back to Cumulus 1 and let it run from where it left off (subject to availability of past data in your weather station).
## Alternatively, to run Cumulus MX with your existing Cumulus data, take a back up copy of your existing Cumulus directory, and then unzip Cumulus MX into the original Cumulus folder. This saves you from the need to edit any reference to folders, but stops you going back easily to Cumulus 1 if you have an issue.
#If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter. There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the "StartDate=" line in the [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station|'[Station]']] section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, whilst Cumulus 1 just looks at all log files it finds in the data folder. There are several other differences, but you can address those later through the MX settings screens.
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