I want to reinstall Cumulus and start all records afresh

[geoffw]

With Dane's help i now have a working cumulus with data starting on the !st January.

Many thanks IB. I’ve inserted all of the necessary date lines to complete a Jan 1 start to a new year. Next job is to try to get the ‘new’ Cumulus to ‘see’ the 09 monthly log files so that I can do a lookup from within Cumulus. I’ve moved Dec09log.txt back into the cumulus data folder but Cumulus does not seem to be configured to ‘see’ it when I do a ‘View/Month’ and select it.

A thought ... does Cumulus use the (Month)09log.txt file for this data enquiry or the Dayfile.txt file?

[steve]

A thought ... does Cumulus use the (Month)09log.txt file for this data enquiry or the Dayfile.txt file?

Mostly dayfile.txt. Gale days come from the monthly log.

[dane]

Geoff,
your new dayfile.txt is OK: your 'trends' graphs for rain and min/max/ave go back to 14. Dec.
About month file: see e-mail..

[geoffw]

Thanks all (especially Dane & Steve)

I am now carefully working back through my original Dayfile.txt checking for errors or obvious anomolies (and I've found a few) and then appending it to the top of the current Dayfile.txt a month at a time. I've just completed December and November and with the data inserted I've checked my current Cumulus for integrity - and to date all is well.

I'm going to wait till tomorrow and the date/day change to see if any nasties emerge before working through the other four months to when I first set up the weather station.

[geoffw]

Well I'm now restored and back to May 2009, when I set up my weather station with Cumulus. Thanks for the helpful support and advise - all my trouble seem to have arisen from a combination of neglect of the data and an abortive attempt to correct a rain error that made thing worse. Not the software .... just the user!

I do have some questions of anomalous rading but that is fo another thread and another day!

thanks again......