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BigOven InspiredCooking(tm) Deluxe Customers: The recipe boxes in the first grid below are already included on your CD-ROM. However, if youve purchased the Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) version, we do not include all 70Mb of recipe boxes in your initial download, just to keep download sizes smaller. We invite you to download the ones you want -- any or all -- below. Also, get the Mobile Companions at no extra charge.

Recipe collections are stored in files called "recipe boxes", and the core recipe box file has a .CRB file extension.

Important: Be sure to save these to the right folder so BigOven can find them!

BigOven is picky about where recipe boxes must be located on your PC. (This is for performance reasons, so BigOven doesnt have to scan your entire drive to build a list of your available recipe boxes for you.)

Heres how to save them to the right location when you add new recipe boxes to your PC:

First, make sure that BigOven or BigOven InspiredCooking Deluxe is installed, but not currently running.
Look for your "My BigOven Recipes" folder. By default, it is created in your "Shared Documents" folder; the full path to this location is usually C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\All Users\Documents\My BigOven Recipes for Windows XP. In Vista, it is C:\Users\Public\Documents\My BigOven Recipes
Take a moment to inspect the "RBox" subfolder of your "My BigOven Recipes" folder that you found in the step above. Note that for every recipe box, it contains a folder with the name of the recipe box, then the recipe box file itself with a CRB extension, and a folder called "Pictures". This is how all recipe boxes must be saved to your PC for BigOven to be able to work with them. They are all at the same "level", or depth, in the directory.