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Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles
How Dragon Synchronizes Master and
Local Roaming User Profiles
When a user that uses a Roaming User Profile exits Dragon, switches User Profiles, closes a User
Profile, or saves a User Profile, Dragon saves changes to the Local Roaming User Profile and then
synchronizes these changes with the Master Roaming User Profiles on the network.
In a networked situation, this occurs at the time one of these operations is performed.
When a user dictates using a computer not currently connected to a network, all changes are saved
to the Local Roaming User Profile; synchronization occurs when the user reattaches the computer
to the network containing the Master Roaming User Profile and opens that User Profile again.
For more information on what options effect what data gets synchronized between the Master and
Local Roaming User Profile, see Setting/selecting Roaming User Profile options.
Note: During synchronization, changes to the Master Roaming User Profile overwrite any changes
made to a Local Roaming User Profile that a user has been using for dictating and correcting dic-
tation while not on the network.
What happens during synchronization
The following changes take place when Local and Master Roaming User Profiles are synchronized:
n Combines words added to the Local Roaming User Profile during a dictation session with the
Master Roaming User Profile vocabulary,
n Removes words deleted from the Local Roaming User Profile from the Master Roaming User
Profile vocabulary.
n Copies acoustic data (from files with a .DRA or .NWV extension) from the Local Roaming User
Profile and adds them to the Master Roaming User Profile where the data become available to
the Acoustic Optimizer (Note that .DRA files saved voluntarily by the user along with a
document do not get added to the Master Roaming User Profile. The.DRA files created
automatically by Dragon for use by the optimizer are the only ones that get added to the Master
Roaming User Profile). For more information on running the Acoustic Optimizer, see Running
the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer for Roaming User Profiles.
n Copies any custom commands created or modified locally (using the MyCommands editor) to
the Master Roaming User Profile.
n Saves any local user options that you changed on the Options or Formatting dialog box to the
Master Roaming User Profile, except the options listed below.
What changes don't get synchronized
The following options are not synchronized with the Master Roaming User Profile; they remain
exclusively on the local computer with the Local Roaming User Profile:
Locally set options on the Options dialog:
n On the Data tab:
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