Sir_Loin_of_Beef
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Yeah, and my date for the senior prom was Anna Philaxis
What are your menu choices for October?
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Andy M.
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I remember Anna. She used to hang out with the Dendron family, Rhoda and Phil.
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Well, it would certainly help if I were to write some of the recipes down. I've just been too lazy.
Yeah, my biggest thing with Copy Me That is you must have the internet to call your recipe's up. So I have been making an effort to have a separate File on my computer with just recipes and also the CMT - very slow work trying to co-ordinate the two. Many of my recipes need to be entered by hand.
msmofet
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You can export CMT recipes to a file on your computer. Then you don't need the internet.
If you don't mind not having the picture that goes with the recipe, then you could just have CMT email you a copy of the recipe at some point while you are making the recipe or planning to. You could even assign it to a collection/tag called "printed" or whatever would suit you. That way you would know which ones have already been printed and you don't have to do it all at once. I am not crazy about their HTML export for all of the recipes. I think some of the stuff had HTML markup showing in highlighted or bold words, well something along those lines. Also, it's one giant file with no table of contents or index. The text is better, but no formatting and no pictures.
But, see, with CMT, you don't have to write it down. You a widget on your tool bar and it copies the recipe to your area of CMT. BTW, it's free. I like it enough that I got the premium version, but that was mostly to support the software. I want it to keep on going and be there at least as long as me. I figure sending them a not large amount of money for a lifetime membership is well worth it. I feel I already got my money's worth, even though I could have gotten it for free.
Of course I can - and do - transfer recipes from CMT to my file.
But I cannot transfer a Word file to CMT.
and my recipe file is 1.02 KB
But I cannot transfer a Word file to CMT.
and my recipe file is 1.02 KB
It's true they don't have an import file. They used to have a way to upload files to Google Drive and then grab them to CMT from Google Drive. But, Google Drive changed something and now it doesn't work anymore. Now, getting recipes into CMT is a slog of copy and paste the ingredients. Copy and paste the instructions and don't forget to put a blank like between steps, if you want them numbered correctly. At least, if the recipe is here, on Discuss Cooking, in a reasonable format, it will import easily into CMT. Hint: it's a good idea to highlight an ingredient before using the CMT widget, here or on FB or in a recipe in a foreign language.
I believe you have far more than 1.02 KB. It's probably MB, if not GB, though that sounds like more than is likely. 1.02 KB would be a file of about 1065 characters (letters, punctuation, spaces, etc.), if it was in ASCII encoding. But, we use Unicode now and that takes more bits per character.
msmofet
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I do the text export.
Yeah, sorry about that - I'm not too good at KB, MG, GB or anything like that. Looked at the wrong line. I can't find how I originally came to it but last time I saved it to a thumbdrive it took 3.46 GB
LOL, and don't bother explaining to me their place of order, nor what they mean - have read about it, looked it up, etc many times. Yes I understand them when I'm looking at them - each one is 1000 times (or something) bigger than the previous one. I can barely recite the alphabet... so save your breathe! My kids don't bother anymore, they just shake their heads.
Want to know what kind of computer I have? It is grey, sits on my table, I can close the lid and carry it with me. And it runs on electricity but I can unplug it for a while and it still works!
ain't tecky stuff great?!?
So is 3.46 GB a lot? I know I still have room on the thumbdrive.
Some of them are repeats because I never created a data base to cross reference them - then eventually I forgot how to do that. Don't even remember what that Microsoft program was called. Not sure it even exists anymore. Only have Word and Excel (which I can barely operate - but with lots of errors I eventually remember the basics).
Some of them are repeats because I never created a data base to cross reference them - then eventually I forgot how to do that. Don't even remember what that Microsoft program was called. Not sure it even exists anymore. Only have Word and Excel (which I can barely operate - but with lots of errors I eventually remember the basics).
Yes, 3.46 GB of recipes is a lot.
Oh oh oh... think that Microsoft program was called Access! Ring a bell anyone? Program to create a Data Base you could cross reference and gazillion things.
Think I had it on my Windows 97. Used it a couple of times but then... nada. It eventually disappeared as I updated computers and Windows.
Think I had it on my Windows 97. Used it a couple of times but then... nada. It eventually disappeared as I updated computers and Windows.
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
To give you a concrete idea, on my laptop I have hundreds, if not a thousand recipes saved. All that and every other document of any kind that I have saved for the past 20 years totals 2.74GB.
oh oh... that's just my recipes - my picture file is slightly bigger...
matter of fact, don't think I'm gonna tell you how big it is 'cause it's embarrassing.
matter of fact, don't think I'm gonna tell you how big it is 'cause it's embarrassing.
The files from my pro camera are 70MB each. I have about 20TB if files on drives in a fireproof safe, and backup drives at my sister's house in a safe.
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Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
YIKES! I just use a phone nowadays. But I'm not a pro that makes my living with a camera.
Exactly, I was advised to pay for (and I do) a T with google cloud for my photo's - now do they have my history files... I don't know.
Even I know that 20 T is a heck of a lot - but that was your business casey - so I'm really not surprised.
One thing my bro drummed into me - every time you take photo's - GO THRU THEM IMMEDIATELY - and delete, delete, delete. I try to do it, actually getting better at it.
I don't know about his digital files but I have his physical ones in a wooden chest (think army steel chest at the end of the cot) in storage. Actually there are 3 of them but some are ancient family photo's - I'm almost 80 and need to go thru them or have a HUGE bonfire. I really don't want to burden the kids with them. sigh.....
Even I know that 20 T is a heck of a lot - but that was your business casey - so I'm really not surprised.
One thing my bro drummed into me - every time you take photo's - GO THRU THEM IMMEDIATELY - and delete, delete, delete. I try to do it, actually getting better at it.
I don't know about his digital files but I have his physical ones in a wooden chest (think army steel chest at the end of the cot) in storage. Actually there are 3 of them but some are ancient family photo's - I'm almost 80 and need to go thru them or have a HUGE bonfire. I really don't want to burden the kids with them. sigh.....
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