Moving Column Formats across Instances

Hi,
We have applied some column formats (Say number with 3 decimal places) to few colums using the "Save-as system wide default for <Column_name>" option. Our reports are grouped under one shared folder(SF1). Another team is developing reports for another subject area which are stored in separate shared folder(SF2). When we asked our Admin to move our catalog from Dev instance to Test instance, he moved it using web catalog manager. Only the SF1 folder was moved. With that it looks like all the formatting which was applied as system wide default has not been migrated. May be it is stored at a catalog level. What should I ask my Admin to migrate so that these system wide defaults are also get migrated. Also, we dont want to move anything from SF2 folder.
Thanks,
Vivek.

Hi Vivek,
Have him merge/copy the /system/metadata folder from the catalog.
Regards
John
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http://fotoalbum.web.de/gast/andre.ml/Essbase
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