I dll'd Big Oven last night,
havent had a chance to look at it....

What I have been doing with them thus far, is ddragging them in a folder in
the drafts area of Outlook Express called recipes....
as of this morning there are 4100 in there...
but outlook isnt the easiest thing to burn when you are trying to make a
backup of your files....
I want them on disk incase something happens & I have to reformat....

so I have been saving them as txt files to my documents, (and deleteing from
the drafts folder) where they are sorted to Main Dish, Sides, Apps, ect...
It just takes forever! I can find time to save about 200 a day from my
Drafts folder to the inbox.... and of course am getting new ones each day
so it seems I take 1 step forward and 2 steps back....

Im afraid I amy just have to scratch them all and start from fresh....
I WISH there was a way to autosave as text, as they come in....
but then I suppose I would have alot of junk as text files.. LOL

anyhooooo............

thanks......



"terrymcintire" > wrote in message
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> Bunny,
> My goodness, are you saying that you have to type the recipes from Betty
> Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook? If that is the case, we certainly
> appreciate your efforts!
>
> A couple of other thing you touched on:
> 1. Like Duckie, I use BigOven software to sort and save my recipes. You
> are able to import several different data formats. It is a little Geeky
> at first, but is terrific when you get it set up.
> 2. I believe it was Cleo that suggested you copy or drag the recipes
> into folders in your mail client. I use Thunderbird which looks much
> like Outlook Express, but is much better in my humble opinion. You can
> download it free on mozilla.com as well as the Firefox browser (it puts
> an end to pop-ups!). For new folders, I put my mail client on 'inbox'
> and go to the 'File' at the top and click on 'new' and then 'folder'.
> Then you can name the folder whatever you want and have as many as you
> want, in order to separate types of cooking or courses or whatever. When
> you have time you can then import these recipes into BigOven and make as
> many folders in it as you want. Besides my cookbook folders, I have a
> "Favorite" folder, a "Try it" folder ect. With BigOven, you needn't be
> online to find a recipe you want. It also has a terrific "Find" button
> on it that you can use to find recipes with the ingredients you have on
> hand. Sorry, I am starting to sound like a commercial, but it is neat
> software.
>
> Thank you so much for your posts and I am looking forward all of your
> future ones too!
>
> Take Care,
> Terry McIntire