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== How do I correct my all-time (or monthly) records? == | == How do I correct my all-time (or monthly) records? == | ||
Use the editor in Cumulus - on the Edit menu. If you know the correct figures, you can enter them manually. | Use the editor in Cumulus - on the Edit menu. If you know the correct figures, you can enter them manually. | ||
*You can look at the [[Alltimelog.txt]] file to find the previous values for the [[Monthlyalltime.ini|all-time records]]. | |||
*Similar entries are logged to the [[diags]] files for the monthly highs and lows in [[month.ini]]. | |||
*You can also get the editor to scan the [[dayfile.txt|daily summary log]] and [[Monthly_log_files]] to find the highs and lows from those files, click the Help button for details. Note that to use this facility you first need to correct any incorrect values in the files being scanned; you can use the built-in editor in Cumulus to edit dayfile.txt. | |||
Cumulus takes a backup of all the active data files when it starts up, and also at the start of the meteorological day (just after midnight for | Cumulus takes a backup of all the active data files when it starts up, and also at the start of the meteorological day (just after midnight for a lot of users). The backups are kept in folders within the backup sub-folder in the Cumulus installation. So an alternative method would be to find the latest backup from before the error occurred, and copy the ''alltime.txt'' and/or ''monthlyalltime.txt'' file from the backup to the Cumulus data folder. Do this with Cumulus stopped. | ||
There is more information in | There is more information in [[:Category:Log_Files]], on the page for each type of file. | ||
== It's January 1st and my 'rain since midnight' and/or 'last 24 hours rain' are wrong/negative == | == It's January 1st and my 'rain since midnight' and/or 'last 24 hours rain' are wrong/negative == | ||