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Migrating from Cumulus 1 to MX: Difference between revisions
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These notes apply whether you are installing in a new location on your PC or installing MX on a different device.
Obtain the MX download (from [[Software]] for latest version or from https://github.com/cumulusmx/CumulusMX/releases if you want an earlier release version).
When you do the unzip as explained below, it ensures all the files that need to be in sub-folders go into correct sub-folders. You then add various folders and files from your Cumulus 1 installation into correct places. As said before, this sub-section gives only a brief mention of possible issues with existing files, later sections will explain those in more detail.
#First create a new directory (recommended name CumulusMX) and unzip the contents into it.
#*For a pi, the instruction might be <tt>unzip -o CumulusMXDist3'''nnn'''.zip</tt> where '''nnn''' is the last 3 digits of the build number.
#Then copy (or file transfer over)
#* your previous '''data''' folder contents into the new data folder created by unzipping, as before you might need to edit some log files
#*your previous '''Reports''' folder contents (if any) into the new Reports folder created by unzipping
#*your Cumulus.ini file goes into the top level folder, the one with ExportMySQL.exe, CumulusMX.exe and the .dll files,
#** Check that destination file, it must be "Cumulus.ini" (ensure it starts with capital letter and all other letters are lower case)
#** In the new "Cumulus.ini" edit any lines that made reference to the old windows location. Remember, that only windows uses "\" in paths, and your new device will require reference to new locations. Even if you are still using windows, you may need to make changes to reflect that the files are now in a new location.
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, and possibly unplugging weather station from one device and plugging it into PC). Obviously you cannot run Cumulus 1 and MX at the same time accessing the same weather station (even if both are on same device and so no unplugging and plugging in is needed).
== Editing files==
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