User Manual

Understanding User Profiles
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You can do the following with user profiles:
• Create new user profiles
• Switch between user profiles
• Return to the original user profile
• Import settings from another user or user profile
• Create a user profile on one system, export it to a server, and then import the same user
profile from another system to the new system.
When you export a user profile, you can select either a Personal or Group profile.
- When you select Personal, the user profile performs an auto-load and an auto-save every
time you open a project. Every time the user profile is updated, it saves the new profile
information. For example, you can create the user profile Jennie on one system, export it
to another location (a server), and then import it to a different system. Any time you
change the Jennie user profile, it updates to the server and when you open the Jennie
user profile on either system, it uses the most updated Jennie user profile.
- When you select Group, the user profile auto-loads but it does not auto-save. Changes
made to the user profile only affect the system where you made the change. The changes
do not update to the server.
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When you export User Profiles in an Avid shared storage environment, make sure the workspace
containing the user profile has the same drive letter on all systems.
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You can not share user profiles across platforms (Macintosh to Windows or Windows to
Macintosh).
• Update a user profile to add user settings to an existing Settings list.
For example, if you upgrade to a version of your Avid editing application that contains the
Send To option from a version that did not have that option, you can choose the Update User
Profile option to make sure the Send To settings templates appear in your Settings list.
For step-by-step procedures, see “Managing User Profiles” on page 75.
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