I want to add that I tried restarting, rebuilding the TD from scratch, installing successive version of Trados (i.e. full reinstall), reindexing the TD, changing the depth of search, etc... nothing fixed the problem permanently.

Finally here is another example of simply a buggy software – term perfectly recognized on one segment, and not recognized a few segments later:

This is the oldest Trados bug I know of. It has been happening for so many years now it's a sad, sad joke. As I have said elsewhere, many times over the years, until they change to a more modern underlying technology, this problem will not go away. Trados termbases are based on some kind of ancient Microsoft Access or Jet technology. However, since Trados termbases are basically MultiTerm termbases, and changing the underlying tech would thus involve completely changing MultiTerm, I doubt they will ever do it in our lifetime.

My recommendation: just use memoQ.

We did within this lifetime, it's called Trados Terminology which is available as part of our cloud offering and free for any purchase of Studio. It retains zero underlying technology from MultiTerm. I appreciate it's not file-based, but still should be a good option for 99% of users.

Indeed, I got my hopes up a while back, thinking exactly that: Yay, they've created a new terminology system, it's cloud based, so it must be based on new tech. However, to my dismal surprise, after a few days the old problem reared its ugly head, in exactly the same way: Terms which I knew were in my (now online) termbase were just not being highlighted in the source box or shown in the term recognition window. SO FRUSTRATING. So, back to memoQ I went, where terms are always, and I mean always recognised.

Every 6 months or so I give Trados Studio a spin, but for well over 10 years now, I have never once gotten term recognition to work reliably enough to be usable in production.

Michael Beijer 

Hi Michael,

This may be something that RWS Support could help you resolve, so start a new thread explaining your issues and giving any extra info particular to your setup that may be useful ... Click the +New button top right of your screen to create a new thread, ask your question again and someone will contact you from RWS Support.

The staff at RWS can only generate one Support Case per thread so this is why you need to start a new thread.

If you want to learn more about term recognition or any other aspect of working with Trados, can I also suggest you take advantage of the new ideas for training hub that Paul has recently set up, where people can add requests for informal training sessions: 

Paul said:

Design your own training!
You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

All the best!

Ali

Michael Beijer 

Hi Michael,

This may be something that RWS Support could help you resolve, so start a new thread explaining your issues and giving any extra info particular to your setup that may be useful ... Click the +New button top right of your screen to create a new thread, ask your question again and someone will contact you from RWS Support.

The staff at RWS can only generate one Support Case per thread so this is why you need to start a new thread.

If you want to learn more about term recognition or any other aspect of working with Trados, can I also suggest you take advantage of the new ideas for training hub that Paul has recently set up, where people can add requests for informal training sessions: 

Paul said:

Design your own training!
You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

All the best!

Ali