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# Export and import user specific settings

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The ***Export*** and ***Import*** features for the ***User-specific settings*** are vault specific, which means that you must select the vault from or into which you want to export or import your settings.
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If you or your ***Users*** are overriding entry properties with ***User-specific settings*** in Remote Desktop Manager, everyone will be required to export and import the ***User-specific settings List*** when migrating data.

### Export

1. In the Remote Desktop Manager ***navigation pane***, select your workspace and vault.
2. Go to ***File – My Account Settings***.
3. Click ***User-specific settings List*** under ***Settings***.
4. Click ***Export***.

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5. Save the .rds file on your computer.
6. Encrypt the file with a ***Password*** and click ***OK***.

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7. Click ***OK*** to close the confirmation window that appears.

Your ***User-specific settings*** have now been exported in a .rds file in the specified location on your computer.

### Import

1. In the Remote Desktop Manager ***navigation pane***, select your new workspace and vault.
2. Go to ***File – My Account Settings***.
3. Click ***User-specific settings List*** under ***Settings***.
4. Click ***Import***.

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5. Locate the .rds file on your computer and click ***Open***.
6. Enter the ***Password***, then click ***OK***.
7. Click ***OK*** to close the confirmation window that appears.

Your ***User-specific settings*** have now been imported to the specified workspace and vault.


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