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   * Select components you want to update   * Select components you want to update
     * "Screen" selection makes sense since it will be the last screen we prepared for this profile     * "Screen" selection makes sense since it will be the last screen we prepared for this profile
-    * "Macros" & "PLC" components are compeletely up to you. Most likely you did some changes in macros and PLC while the machine setup. In this case you need to keep your files and don't update macros/PLC. You may use macros/PLC update if your machine setup is in progress and you need to rollback to Factory defaults.+    * "Macros" & "PLC" components are completely up to you. Most likely you did some changes in macros and PLC while the machine setup. In this case you need to keep your files and don't update macros/PLC. You may use macros/PLC update if your machine setup is still in progress and you need to rollback to Factory defaults.
     * Variables - Never update the cnc-variables.xml file unless absolutely necessary since it contains all your machine settings like "pulse per mm", motor outputs configuration, input-output assignments etc.     * Variables - Never update the cnc-variables.xml file unless absolutely necessary since it contains all your machine settings like "pulse per mm", motor outputs configuration, input-output assignments etc.
   * Press "Load Profile form myCNC Server" button"   * Press "Load Profile form myCNC Server" button"
-  * Confirmation dialog will appear. Please check and confirm update.+  * Confirmation dialog will appear. Check that everything has been selected correctly and confirm the update.
  
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-2. Copy the archive file that you have downloaded to home .config myCNC profiles+2. Copy the archive file that you have downloaded to home/.config/myCNC/profiles
  
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-3. If you would like to keep your preferences from your previous profile, do not extract the downloaded archive yet. Instead, go to your old profile's folder and copy the **cnc-variables.xml** file over to your Desktop (or any other folder where you can temporarily store it during this setup process).+3. If you would like to keep your preferences from your previous profile, do not extract the downloaded archive just yet. Instead, go to your old profile's folder and copy the **cnc-variables.xml** file over to your Desktop (or any other folder where you can temporarily store it during this setup process).
  
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-5. Extract the folder from the copied archive into the Profiles folder. If you want to add your previous settings from Steps 3 and 4, replace the **cnc-variables.xml** file in your new profile folder with the one that you have copied to your desktop, and similarly replace the new **plc** folder with the old one. +5. Extract the folder from the copied archive into the Profiles folder by right-clicking the archive and selecting the 'Extract Here' option, or by double-clicking the archive and extracting it by right-clicking on the folder in the window that appears. If you want to add your previous settings from Steps 3 and 4, replace the **cnc-variables.xml** file in your new profile folder with the one that you have copied to your desktop, and similarly replace the new **plc** folder with your old one. 
  
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-5. Relaunch myCNC software.+5. Relaunch the myCNC application.
  
  
mycnc/update_profile.txt · Last modified: 2019/12/24 15:11 by ivan

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