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Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles
Roaming User Profile with vocabulary changes every time that user profile is opened. When you
run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the Master Roaming User Profile, Dragon
incorporates the contents of vocdelta.dat into the vocabulary (.voc) file and clears the content of
vocdelta.dat.
If you check this setting, Dragon monitors the size of the vocdelta.dat file. When the voc-
delta.dat file reaches 90% of it's maximum size (500 KB), Dragon incorporates the contents of
the vocdelta.dat file into the vocabulary (.voc) file and clears vocdelta.dat
This operation occurs when the user opens the local Roaming User Profile. This operation can
take a long time because the vocabulary file must be transferred over the network twice. Sub-
sequently, opening the local Roaming User Profile on another workstation can also take a long
time because the entire vocabulary file must be copied from the master to the local Roaming User
Profile.
Selecting this option will transfer at maximum 500 KB, or 12 bytes/word across the network at
synchronization if the Roaming and Local copies are different..
Access network at user profile open/close only
Select this box to synchronize changes made to the local Roaming User Profile to the Master
Roaming User Profile only when a local Roaming User Profile opens or closes. If this box is not
selected, then these local changes are immediately transferred to the Master Roaming User Profile.
The only changes affected by this setting are the changes a user makes locally from the Options
dialog box, therefore this setting is highly unlikely to have a perceptible impact on Dragon’s per-
formance.
At synchronization, setting this option will copy approximately
n 18 MB of vocabulary files (*.voc).
n 240 MB of acoustic archive files create for each dictation session (acarchive.nwv and
acarchive.enwv).
Note: These files are only copied from the Local to the Roaming User Profile; they are never
copied from the Roaming User Profile to the local User Profile.
These file will synchronize across the network when:
n Vocabulary files - when the Local user modifies the vocabulary with information from the
Learn from specific documents, Learn from sent e-mails, or Vocabulary Optimizer dialogs
or when the Roaming and Local copies are different.
n Acoustic archive files - these files will be copied to session folder if it exists. Once the master
voice_container limit is reached, nothing more is copied.
Ask before breaking locks on network user profiles (recommended
for UNC and mapped drives)
Select this box to keep the option of maintaining or breaking a network lock when opening a
Roaming User Profile. Normally, network locks prevent anyone from opening a Roaming User Pro-
file at the same time someone else is opening that user profile. While this process does not take a
long time, network problems can cause a lock to become "stuck" and not release when the open-
ing process is completed. When this happens, the next time anyone tries to open that user profile,
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