I was working on a project of four files. I received a fifth file. I had already translated the first four. I clicked on the project where the list of files was. I then clicked on "Add Files" and chose the file to add. The file was added, but all the details about every file said n/a and [none]. I tried double-clicking on any of the five files to start translation, but nothing happened. So, yes, I can't open them to edit anymore.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "opening the source files under the source language in Studio". Finnish is the source.

I am not doing anything different to how I normally use the files, all I did was try to add a file, then everything went away.

Hi  ,

Thanks for getting back to me.

What I would like to ask you to check is that if you change to the target language view in Studio, can you open the files for editing properly? You can switch between the source and target languages here:

As you can see in this sample project English is the source language, and by default Studio cannot open source language files, as only the target language files are to be edited, those under French and Spanish.

Could you please check if you switch to your target language (English I presume?) you can open the files?

Best wishes,
Greta

Hi

If you have to translate the files into English, then indeed, English is the target language in Studio as well. Finnish is the source language in this case.

Opening the target files for translation (when the window is displaying the English files, as you wrote) should happen quite quickly, I'm not quite sure why it took so many clicks. However, there is another way to open them for translation, please click on this icon, after selecting the files you would like to open:

Please let me know if this works for you better.

Best wishes,
Greta

Hi peter culley, hi Greta Magyar

May I interrupt and say I think it might help, Peter, if you took a look at the pages where the Files view is explained in the online SDL Trados Studio 2019 manual:

Files View

There are various links for you to explore the functions and functionality available. You can use them to see various images and explanations, such as:

The languages available in a given project are selectable via the dropdown arrow menu in the Languages folder dialog you're referring to, which I've highlighted in the above image.

The Source and Target languages are available there to choose between. Source is the language you're translating from. Target is the language you're translating too.

So, if you're translating from Finnish to English, when you click on 'Finnish', the files that you see in the list on the right will be the untranslated SLDXLIFF file/s and resource file/s that were added when you created the project. They will remain unchanged in the Source folder of your physical project (also visible in the project folder structure that was created by Studio when you created the project either from scratch or by opening a package or individual file for translation. You can navigate to it via Windows Explorer*). You won't be able to do anything (in Studio) to these files that are listed when your Source language is selected except 'Batch Tasks > Copy to Target Language' ready for translation if that hasn't already been done.

When you select your Target language (presuming English in your case) from the languages dropdown arrow menu in the Files View of Studio, then it will be your Target file/s that will be listed in the Files View main window on the right. If they've all been prepared for translation, then the list will look the same as it did in the Source list. These are the files you can either open for reference or work on in Editor by first selecting what you want to do with them either from the top toolbar or by right-clicking and selecting an item from the dropdown menu that appears.

It is also possible to have further languages available from the languages arrow dropdown menu if you are translating from one Source language to more than one Target language but we won't go into that.

*If you want to look at the file structure on your computer of a project set up by Studio, you can do this via Windows Explorer here:

C:\Users\your_username\Documents\Studio 2019\Projects

This is the default place Studio saves projects too. It is also possible to save projects elsewhere on your system if you want to, via Browse when you first set up your project/open a package/open a single file for translation.

Compare what the project folder looks like as opposed to the Studio visualisation of the project, if you want to feel more aware of what's happening on your PC while you're working on a project in Studio.

I think I've given you way too much information at once so I'll stop there...

Hope this helps,

All the best,

Ali