| ##### Open and save profiles

Welcome to DROID |  | Exporting profiles

DROID can open and save profiles to a file with a .droid filename extension. Note that DROID 6 cannot open profiles created by earlier versions of DROID.

Opening a profile

To open a saved profile, press the Open button, or select the File / Open menu item. A standard file open selection dialog will appear. Navigate to the droid profile you want to open, and press the OK button. The profile will open in a new tab. If it is a large profile (containing hundreds of thousands of files and folders), it may take a few minutes to open. A progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows how much of the profile has been opened so far.

## Saving a profile

To save a profile, press the Save button, or select the File / Save menu item. If your profile has never been saved before, a standard file save dialog will appear, and you can choose where to save the file and what name it has. If your profile has been saved before, it will be saved to the place it was opened from, and no file save dialog will appear. It it is a large profile (containing hundreds of thousands of files and folders), it may take a few minutes to save. A progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows how much of the profile has been saved so far.

To save an existing profile to another file, select the File / Save As... menu item. This will always bring up a file save dialog, allowing you to choose a different file to save to.

## DROID Profile files

Profile files are actually zip files, which contain some XML files describing the profile, and a database containing any results of profiling so far. DROID currently uses the Apache Derby database, version 10.7, which can be opened using various third-party tools, such as DB Visualizer. The username to connect to a droid database is droid_user, and the password is the same as the username.

It is possible to manually edit the profile settings contained within the profile.xml file. However, it is not recommended that you do this, as changing settings within a profile may mean that inconsistent results are returned (if the profile is paused and there are remaining results to process), or may even cause DROID to crash if the settings conflict with the profile state. In particular you must not change which signatures are used by a profile. We cannot guarantee that other settings are safe to change. Changing this file is entirely at your own risk.

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