YES YES YES!!!!!! SUCCESS!!!!!!! (Wow, I was so excited I went ahead and posted just the "yes yes yes" part of the message!
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I decided to give replacing the data files a shot. First thing I did was create a folder in the data folder and copied all the files found there into the new folder.
Then I looked in the backup folder and there were several files in there, all with dates in their names of June 3rd which was a bad day. I then went into the "Daily" folder and found other folders with dates incorporated in their names. I went into the one that preceded the time the problem happened and found older copies of data files. There were a two or three files in the data folder that were not in the backup folder. I then copied and pasted the files in the backup folder over the files in the data folder. This left those two or three files (mostly log files) in the data folder unchanged. I held my breath and restarted Cumulus. It started up, but...the download window didn't open, the weather screen started up quickly, no apparent history data, it looked like it's "start date" was when I just started up Cumulus. My
face was shortlived, though!
Since I had backed up all the files in the data folder previously I decided to delete everything in the data folder and then paste what files were in the chosen backup folder into the data folder. My weak mind was hoping that Cumulus was reading the old, bogus log files and thus not downloading the data from the logger. My feeble mind was telling me that Cumulus would create it's own log files if it didn't not find any in the folder...and it would have to create them from "new" data. I did the delete, copy, paste sequence and restarted Cumulus. The download window opens...and suddenly I'm seeing the last several days of weather life pass before my eyes!!! I looked at my All Time Records and they look about right.
IT WORKED!!!!Thanks everybody!! And Paul, I appreciate your last two messages. Those and a thread with Steve over at Sandaysoft helped me to try and salvage the few days of data that I had...and learn how to do it in case I need it later!
Now to figure out how to seamlessly(?) convert over from WeatherLink to Cumulus for my WU uploads...
Ed