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Preserving user training when restoring OS
Submitted by jsachs177 on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 15:44.
I'm using DNS 9.1 with Windows XP. I recently had some trouble with the operating system, which I'm trying to repair by restoring a backup and/or running a repair.
I had to use Dragon after restoring the backup, and I was disconcerted to find that it no longer believed that my primary user had been trained. I keep my user files on a separate disk from the operating system, along with all the rest of my data, to avoid precisely this kind of problem. I assumed that the voice files somehow got damaged along with the operating system despite that precaution, and I did the retraining.
Later in the process I restored my system backup again, and when I was done, Dragon no longer believed that my primary user had been trained.
What I missing here? Apparently the user files that Dragon keeps in \Documents and Settings\...\Users are not a complete set of user files -- the training is kept somewhere else. Where is it, and once I move it to a safe place, how do I tell Dragon where it is?
Switch to Backup User Files
Everything that has to do with your user profile, including training, is
stored at ~ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9\Users\(your username)\ on Windows XP. However,
System Restore is well known to corrupt user profiles. Our 1st recommendation
would be to switch to your backup user profile which you will find a
step-by-step on in our Quick Tips
when you look up "Switching to Backup User Files".
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Umm...
Umm... I think you misunderstood my question.
I know that "System Destroy" messes up any number of things, and I do not use it.
When said that I restored my system, I meant that I restored my system. From a backup. Since I restored the system drive and my user profiles were on the data drive, this should have had no effect on them.
Switching to the backup user profile would mean losing work, which is hardly a good solution to the problem. And in this situation, it's not clear to me why the backup user profile would not have the same problem as the current one.
I did the same when I
I did the same when I recently accidentally deleted my entire disc when trying to install Linux in a particular partition. I restored, inter alia, my C drive (which included the XP OS and all my Documents and Settings) from a two-week-old image, and it created no problems– both my ViaVoice and 3 DNS Users were restored without any difficulty. I never use "System Destroy"
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jsachs177 wrote: When said
When said that I restored my system, I meant that I restored my system. From a backup. Since I restored the system drive and my user profiles were on the data drive, this should have had no effect on them.
It is possible that not all the registry settings were transferred. If I were where you are at, I would try a repair installation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking from the original installation disk.
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