Are you changing your phone and want to keep all your recipes?
COOKmate offers several ways to synchronize your data between devices.
The easiest method is to use a COOKmate online account, which allows you to automatically synchronize your recipes across all your devices: Synchronize Cookmate Android application and Cookmate Online
Another available method is synchronization using Dropbox. This method requires a manual backup and restore, but it is still useful if you prefer managing your files yourself.
Before using Dropbox, make sure COOKmate is properly connected to your Dropbox account. You can follow this guide to set it up: Synchronize/backup your recipes with Dropbox (documentation for Android)
Below are the steps to back up and restore your recipes using Dropbox.
On your old device
Open COOKmate and tap File Import / Export from the menu.
Select the Dropbox tab
Tap Export and choose:
- Export recipes to back up your recipes
- Export shopping lists to back up your shopping lists
Select the recipes you want to back up, or choose Select all.
Then tap the Export button.
Choose the .mcb format. This format includes your images.
You can change the name of the backup file if you wish.
Tap Export to continue.
The backup file is uploaded to your Dropbox account.
On your new device
Open COOKmate on your new device.
Go to File Import / Export, select the Dropbox tab, select your backup file and import it.
Your recipes are now available on your new phone.
40 thoughts on “Tutorial – How to Transfer Your Recipes to a New Phone with Dropbox (documentation for Android)”
I am trying to transfer from one Samsung to another. I have tried your tutorial via the dropbox. I have successfully put an mcb and an xml backup file into the dropbox, but the “list of files” does not appear in the new phone.
Help
Hi, Could you check in your device settings that the “Storage” permission is enabled?
Go to Settings / Apps / My CookBook / Permissions / Storage
Every time I try and export my recipes to put them on a new device I get an error. None of the options work. I’ve tried every combination. It’s been like this for a very long time.
Hi Jason, you can contact the support here https://mycookbook.zendesk.com if you need some help
I purchased “My Cookbook Pro”..I have changed my device, and it’s asking me to purchase again ?
Hi, If you are using the same google account on the Play Store, you don’t have to purchase it again
How do you delete the entire cookbook? Even though I import with add new recipes, it continually duplicates the entire cookbook. I also can’t sync with Dropbox.
Thanks,
John renfree
Hi, are you selecting the option “add all missing recipes” ?
If you want to delete all your recipes, you can reinstall the app, or go to the settings of your device and clear the data of My CookBook
How can I import my word document recipes into My Cookbook?
Hi,
Sorry we currently don’t support imports from word documents …
Just received an iPad air. Do you have your program compatible with my new iPad?
Hi Edie,
We don’t have yet an app for iPad…. We will work on it next year
You can use the online website in the meantime
Purchased on,Amazon, then uninstalled the store. Now it won’t let me run the app. Says I have to be signed in to Amazon to run. Goggle Play store says I have to buy it again. Is there any way to resolve this without reinstating Amazon?
Hi Chris,
I am afraid you will have reinstall the amazon store…. Google Play and Amazon have different licenses…
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/08/crockpot-pizza-soup-recipe.html?m=1
Would love to be able to emport recipes from this website
How can I?
Yes the path in the settings are correctly, the images are located in the corresponding folder but no images are displayed. But I figured out the path in the database was wrong. About the path of the tablet (samsung Tab3) is not the same as on the smartphone (SG2). I have solved the problem als follow: exported the database from tablett as *xml. After export I’ve edited the XML-file and corrected the path from
/storage/emulated/0/MyCookBook/images to /storage/sdcard0/MyCookBook/images
After import to SG2 the images are displayed and everything is allright now.
Cheers Ron
Great, thanks for your feedback Ron !
I’ve transferred all my recipes from my tablet to my smartphone successfully. But there is something wrong with the images. They are completely in the folder /storage/sdcard0/MyCookBook/images but they are not displayed in the recipe view…
Hi Ron ,
Have you checked the path of the images directory, in the settings of the app ?