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When exporting af my 2021 user profile for use in SDL Trados 2022 so that I keep my settings it seems that not everything comes with it. 
 Is there somewhere that I can see what is included? 
 I have a freelance plus and I want to have two identical environments so if the user profile could contain everything it would be nice, but it doesn&rsquo;t seem so.

Paul · Accepted Answer

Aino Slej 
 Generally there is a separation, I think, between settings which affect how the application is set up for you generally and settings that are used in different ways for different types of project or different customers. The more general settings would be in your user profile. 
 All the things you have mentioned could be different for different projects and are not specific to your profile. They might be in your case because of the way you work, but we don't know this and there needs to be a consistent approach. So these more project specific settings would be defined by what's in your sdlproj file. They get into this file through your project templates which can be found under File -> Setup -> Project Templates . 
 If you don't make use of these features then all the settings you referred to will be under one template, the Default . So if you use this in your other machine then that will probably get you what you're after. If you do use it then copy them all over. 
 One very important point to note is that you must ensure the paths in both computers match. So mirroring the machine is important down to this detail. 
 See if this helps you? 
 One other point is that QA settings and filetype settings can also be saved separately and this can also be quite helpful. But I think in your case project templates are probably the way to go.

Paul · Answer

Aino Slej 
 Aino Slej said: Is there somewhere that I can see what is included? 
 This is a very good question... and I don't think there is. The help documentation gives you this: 
 https://docs.rws.com/980998/341958/trados-studio-2022/profiles-for-------------trados-studio-users 
 Essentially this: 
 Your profile contains: 
 
 User settings (for example, custom keyboard shortcuts, custom look and feel, selected Spell Checker) 
 Default project settings (for example, default language pairs, translation memories, termbases, AutoSuggest dictionaries, automated translation providers, file types, translation memory settings, batch processing settings) 
 
 But it's not exhaustive. 
 Aino Slej said: if the user profile could contain everything it would be nice, but it doesn’t seem so. 
 Perhaps work the other way around and tell us what's missing? Then we may be able to help you with this problem as you may be expecting something that's not actually held in here. 
 Also, one trick that might be helpful is to export your profile and then open it in a text editor. Fold it (if you have a decent text editor) and just display the headings: 
 
 Might be helpful in a techy sort of way.

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