Dragon Medical Practice Edition has a profile that is unique to every individual that uses the program. Ensuring your Dragon Medical user profile is safe is important.
User profiles contain user-specific voice data, custom commands, and trained words that have been added to the programs vocabulary. The more a profile is used, the more accurate and developed it becomes. Having a well-trained profile will be much more accurate and responsive than a newly created profile. For these reasons, we recommend periodically backing up your user profile.
Proper Exit
When loading your user profile, files are constantly being read/written to. If this process is interrupted, there is a chance your profile may become damaged. If a profile becomes too damaged, it will become unreadable. If this happens, the user will have to create a new profile and begin the entire process over. All custom commands, templates, vocabulary and voice training will be lost.
However, this can easily be avoided by simply closing properly before shutting down or restarting your PC. When closing, all files are saved and written to, and the program safely closes your user profile.
It is imperative to properly exit Dragon before shutting down your PC to prevent profile damage. This can be done by simply selecting “Profile” from the Dragon bar and clicking “Exit”.
Schedule Backups
In order to protect your profile during unexpected restarts or computer crashes, we recommend periodically manually exporting your profile.
Although there is a Backup/Restore option, this saves your profile to the same physical drive. This will not secure your profile should your hard drive fail. The only true fail-safe against catastrophic system failures is to back up to an external flash drive/hard drive.
Exporting Dragon Medical User Profile
Follow the steps below to export your user profile:
- Open Dragon Medical
- Make sure no user profile is loaded. Click Profile > Close User Profile
- Click Profile > Manage User Profiles
- Select the user profile you wish to backup
- Click Advanced > Export
- Select a location to export your profile
- Click OK
Importing Dragon Medical User Profile
You have now successfully exported your profile. Should your profile ever become corrupt or you need to reinstall, you can quickly and easily be back up and running in a matter of minutes by following these steps to import a user profile:
- Open Dragon Medical
- Make sure no user profile is loaded. Click Profile > Close User Profile
- Click Profile > Manage User Profiles
- Click Advanced > Import
- Navigate to the location where your profile is saved
- Select the Profile
- Click OK (note: if you are importing a profile to fix an existing profile that has become damaged, Dragon may ask you if you would like overwrite that profile. If prompted, choose Yes.