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Cumulus maintains a number of 'all time records' for the station -- highs and lows for many of the readings. These were stored in a database file (alltime.rec) however starting with Build 924 (version 1.8.9) of Cumulus this data is now stored in a text file which can be easily edited if needed.▼
== Introduction ==
▲Cumulus maintains a number of 'all time records' for the station -- highs and lows and their timestamps for many of the readings.
The first time you run Build 924 or later of Cumulus it will convert your alltime.rec file into an alltime.ini file and use the ini file going forward. The alltime.ini file is located in the 'data' folder▼
== Pre Build 924 (version 1.8.9) ==
The highs and lows were stored in a database file (alltime.rec)
== Build 924 (version 1.8.9) ==
▲Starting with Build 924 (version 1.8.9) of Cumulus highs and lows and their timestamps are stored in a text file which can be easily edited if needed. The first time you run Build 924, or later, of Cumulus it will convert
== Post Build 924 (version 1.8.9) ==
The alltime.ini file is normally located in the Data sub-folder of the path where your Cumulus.exe is installed. If you cannot find the file [[FAQ#I_can.E2.80.99t_find_my_data_files.21|see this FAQ]]. Date, Time and Decimal formatting is as per your regional settings on the PC running Cumulus.
The format consists of a number of sections (section title is delimited by [ ]), and a number of properties (consisting of attribute name, an equals sign and a value). Blank lines can be included for readability, they are ignored in these .ini type log files.
If you restart Cumulus during the day it will read this file at startup, so it can resume tracking extremes of the key parameters starting from latest stored values in alltime.ini. Equally, if you close Cumulus during the day it will write the final values for highs and lows and their timestamps to alltime.ini as part of the close down process.
=== Editing alltime.ini within Cumulus ===
The stored values can be corrected using the ''All time records'' screen on the '''Edit''' menu and this Cumulus editor allows you to read from the [[dayfile.txt|daily log]] or the [[Monthly_log_files]]. Therefore, normally any rogue values are corrected in these source files, and resulting lows and highs copied across to the all time log using the in-built editor.
=== Editing alltime.ini outside Cumulus ===
It is unlikely that you need to do this, given the functionality of the in-built editor.
'''Tips''' -- take a copy of the original log file before you work on it outside Cumulus.
Edit the original file using an editor that treats all fields as text [either any text editor, or a spreadsheet program that can be instructed ''not'' to recognise special field (like date) types]. All values have to be specified in the correct section, see [[#Post_Build_924_(version_1.8.9)]] above and follow the format of the property lines in the example below. Note that figures are held internally in Cumulus in binary, and converted to Base 10 numbers for the value shown. Since fractional binary values cannot be converted exactly to base 10 decimals, real numbers appear to be given to a strange decimal resolution with multiple decimal places.
==Example line of the file==
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