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Latest Cumulus MX V4 release 4.0.1 (build 4023) - 16 May 2024

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Got a new PC and planning to move Cumulus...

Discussion and questions about Cumulus weather station software version 1. This section is the main place to get help with Cumulus 1 software developed by Steve Loft that ceased development in November 2014.
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agsteele
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Got a new PC and planning to move Cumulus...

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Is there any guidance available re moving Cumulus to a new PC and, at the same, time keep the existing data, configuration files etc.

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Re: Got a new PC and planning to move Cumulus...

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Re: Got a new PC and planning to move Cumulus...

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I just moved my cumulus set-up to a new computer.

All I did was copy the cumulus folder and all its contents to a memory stick.
Then I copied the folder and all its contents from the memory stick to the required destination on the new computer.
Cumulus works perfectly from the new location and the move was a lot simpler and quicker than the method at http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Moving_cumulus
Have I missed some subtle point which will come back and bite me later ?

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Re: Got a new PC and planning to move Cumulus...

Post by steve »

Just copying the entire folder hierarchy works fine, if you know what you're doing. Not running the installer means that you don't get a shortcut created, and there's no install information created in Windows, so any future upgrades wouldn't know where your existing installation was.
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Re: Got a new PC and planning to move Cumulus...

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Setting up the new PC has been rather slower than I planned so have only just returned for the answer... Many thanks to all.
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