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 - Install requirements `pip install -r requirements.txt`
 - `cp example.env .env` 
 - Edit `.env` and add creds for the production, test or development server you'll retrieve the data from. 
-- Execute dump to retrieve base data: `env $(cat example.env) python ./confdump.py dump -o mydata INSTANCEPATH` where INSTANCEPATH is something like https://crm.dev.caat.org.uk/.
+- Execute dump to retrieve base data: `env $(cat .env) python ./confdump.py dump -o mydata INSTANCEPATH` where INSTANCEPATH is something like https://crm.dev.caat.org.uk/.
 - **IMPORTANT!!** - If you sourced the data from live, you must delete the `.env` file or delete the creds from inside it. If you leave them in it will negate the whole purpose of having this conf dump utility, which is to provide a way of creating a local site without any sensitive data.
 - If your civicrm is in a docker container, load data into running local instance with: `confdump.py mysql -i mydata/ -p 63306`
 - Otherwise use `confdump.py mysql -i mydata/ --host=<host> --db=<db> --user=<user> --password=<password>`