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Chapter 9: Maintaining a Dragon installation
Exporting and Importing User Profiles
You can export User Profiles on one computer and import them for use on another.
When you export a user profile to a new location, any custom words added to a Local Roaming
User Profile do not accompany the User Profiles unless you first run the Learn from specific
documents wizard in the Accuracy Center .
Exporting User Profiles
To export User Profiles from Dragon:
1. On the DragonBar , select Profile > Manage User Profiles .
2. The Manage User Profiles dialog box opens.
3. Select the user profile in the list that you want to export.
4. Click the Advanced button and select Export from the menu that appears.
5. When the Browse For Folder dialog box opens, navigate to the folder where you want to store
the exported user profile (or create a new folder by clicking the Make New Folder button) and
click OK .
6. When a dialog box opens displaying a message indicating the export was successful, click OK .
7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each set of User Profiles you want to export.
8. Click Close to close the Manage User Profiles dialog box.
9. In the operating system, navigate to the directory where you exported the User Profiles. In that
directory you find a separate folder for each exported user profile, labeled with the user name.
Importing User Profiles
To import User Profiles into Dragon that you previously exported on a different computer:
1. On the DragonBar , select Profile > Manage User Profiles . The Manage User Profiles
dialog box opens.
2. Click the Advanced button and select Import from the menu.
3. When the Browse For Folder dialog box opens, navigate to the folder to retrieve a set of
exported User Profiles from.
4. Select the folder in that directory that has the name of the User Profile to import and click OK .
5. If the user profile already exists a User already exists dialog box opens and asks you to
choose how to proceed: Overwrite the existing user or Import the user with an alternate
name . If you choose to import the User Profile and assign it another name, enter the name in
the text box provided and click OK.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 for each user whose User Profiles you want to import.
7. Click Close to close the Manage User Profiles dialog box.
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