Recipe Surprise - and How to Deal with Mastercook

[wintersummer]

This has happened to me on more than one occasion and presents a two-part dilemma. Here goes:

I find a recipe in some source (magazine, cookbook, this board) and it turns out great! I decide to add it Mastercook (I only add tried-and-true recipes). I get the recipe all ready to save and get the message that recipe already exists. This happened yesterday with "Carrots Glazed with Balsamic Vinegar and Butter". I then have to make decision to overwrite original recipe....but at this point, I don't know what original recipe is. After all, I haven't made it before, right? But, it seems like I have made it before.

Here are the questions:
Do you always look at MC (or other cooking program) files BEFORE you make a recipe to see if you've made it before? OR, can you remember every single recipe you've ever made?

In MC, how do you look at original recipe (the one you didn't know you had!) while not losing the content of the recipe you've just added and are attempting to save? I need to do this to determine if recipe is the same recipe or a different recipe. The recipe yesterday had a pretty specific title and chances were pretty good it was the same recipe, but what if it's a pretty generic type recipe (i.e., buttermilk biscuits)?

Thanks.

[wintersummer]

I think I posted this question to incorrect board. It should have been in cooking. Is there a way to move my post?

[zwieback]

I don't use Mastercook too often so, I haven't come across this problem yet. But, I'd probably just rename the recipe I just added to something new. Just tweak the name of the recipe a tad so that it is different enough to save, but close enough so you remember what it is. That way, you could look up the previous recipe, compare and delete the one you don't want or keep them both.

[funnybone]

When that happens to me, I just add the number 1 or a letter after the recipe name. I can later go back and check the recipes to see if they are the same or different. It's easy to delete a recipe if it turns out to be a duplicate.

[IndyKF]

It's been a while since I've used MC, but check under preferences or options and there should be a way to "allow duplicate" recipe names.

[madpots]

I have had this happen to me frequently. I tried to check it out to see exactly what occurs, but it just listed the second recipe with a 1 after the title. But sometimes I have gotten the 2 blocks listing the title and saying there is a recipe by the same name, I think there is, in the left hand corner, done...I click on that and go on. If it is the same recipe I delete it, if not I rename it. But I tried twice with 2 recipes and both times it just entered the second recipe with a 1.