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More than 100 target segments left empty after 'update file'

Michael Albers

Hello, I am a new user of Trados Studio (2019) and have worked on my first projects with this software.

I had some bad quality files that I prepared (PDF to Word) before I imported them in Studio. And of course, with the largest file I had to work on today, I had to change something in the prepared Word document. After I did that, I updated the file in Trados and saw that 100 target segments were left empty after the update.

To be honest that scares me, but since I am a new user, I might have done something wrong or I am missing an option that I should have set. And in that case, is there anything I can do to get those segments filled again? I tried pre-translate, but that didn't seem to work. 

In case I did something wrong, please try to enlighten me.

Next time I will make an update of the sdlxliff of the file that I am updating, but that shouldn't be necessary every time a source file is updated.

Thank you,
Michael
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    Hello

    The Update file function was designed to help you transfer your already translated content to the updated version of the file in Studio. It will basically pre-translate the new file with your previous file as a TM, so that the segments you have already translated will be translated in the new file, and only those segments will have to be translated which were updated or have not yet been translated.

    If I understand correctly, you have already translated parts of your first document in Studio and then used the Update File option on it to replace it with the new updated version? How did you progress in your first file, how much content was translated in it? 
    Might sound a basic question, but have you saved your first file before proceeding with the update?

    Looking forward to hearing from you.

    Best wishes,
    Greta
  • 0 in reply to Greta Magyar

    Hi Greta,

    Thank you for you answer. You understood correctly. And, if I am not mistaken, I understood the way it should work too.

    The file was saved (the day before), but somehow it didn't seem that the translations were saved to the main TM.

    I can't reproduce, but in the meantime I've been finishing the assignment. I luckily had a 'test file', a saved file from the first auto translated segments, the segments that were missing. With some tinkering, I managed to get a complete TM with almost all of those missing segments and the file at the time that had the later translations.

    Michael
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