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Is Trados Studio 2019 very much different from Trados Studio 2017?

I have not been working a lot with Trados 2017 for the last 3 years and if I did, it was rather on a simple level, only with files and my own TMs or with packages from clients with integrated TMs and glossaries. Actually I am having a new client where I need to work with Trados again and on a deeper level which requires more knowledge and handling of tools like connecting to worldserver, generating glossaries in the Glossary Converter etc. Again and again I am finding myself with technical issues (cannot connect to worldserver, glossary converter does not work or any other error messages) and it takes me ages to find the reason or I do not find it. Maybe some of the issues also have to do with the fact, that I work on Mac in the virtual machine Paralells and Windows 10 installed on it. Therefore I thought to buy a support package from SDL for one year to make sure, that I get immediate help when I face these problems. But I cannot get a support package for Trados 2017, only for 2019 version. My question to those who made the step from Trados 2017 to 2019:

1. Do these versions differ a lot? Was is easy or a challenge to get into the new version? 

2. SDL Chat support told me that I can have both versions installed. Are there any inconveniences with having 2 versions installed on my Mac? Could that create another issue?

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you.

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  • Hi 

    I didn't reply to this because I don't work on a Mac AND I work locally, not via GroupShare but as nobody has replied to you yet, I thought I should share my thoughts about the transition from 2017 and 2019 on a PC.

    The changeover for me was easy. I started with the first beta version and liked it so much that I didn't just experiment with it, I started using it for all my work straight away. The biggest agency I work for did not make the change until very recently but my working in Studio 2019 on their projects created in Studio 2017 created no problems at all. Apart from a bookmark error message on opening each project but that wasn't a problem, just click then ignore it. You can disable bookmarks if it annoys you. 

    The 2019 interface on PC looks almost identical to 2019, though it has more functionality. 

    Having 2017 and 2019 on the same computer has never caused a problem. You will need the correct version of MultiTerm that goes with each of them, however.

    I didn't really notice just how much better 2019 is than 2017 until I went back to working in 2017 on a colleague's computer. Then I missed the extra features of 2019 very much. The best feature for me is that if you have a project with multiple folders containing multiple files, you can tick this box to be able to see them all AND open them all in a 'virtual merge':

    Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing the Files view with a project expanded to display subfolders 'Source Files' and 'Target Files'.

    I hope this helps!

    All the best,

    Ali Slight smile

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  • Hi 

    I didn't reply to this because I don't work on a Mac AND I work locally, not via GroupShare but as nobody has replied to you yet, I thought I should share my thoughts about the transition from 2017 and 2019 on a PC.

    The changeover for me was easy. I started with the first beta version and liked it so much that I didn't just experiment with it, I started using it for all my work straight away. The biggest agency I work for did not make the change until very recently but my working in Studio 2019 on their projects created in Studio 2017 created no problems at all. Apart from a bookmark error message on opening each project but that wasn't a problem, just click then ignore it. You can disable bookmarks if it annoys you. 

    The 2019 interface on PC looks almost identical to 2019, though it has more functionality. 

    Having 2017 and 2019 on the same computer has never caused a problem. You will need the correct version of MultiTerm that goes with each of them, however.

    I didn't really notice just how much better 2019 is than 2017 until I went back to working in 2017 on a colleague's computer. Then I missed the extra features of 2019 very much. The best feature for me is that if you have a project with multiple folders containing multiple files, you can tick this box to be able to see them all AND open them all in a 'virtual merge':

    Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing the Files view with a project expanded to display subfolders 'Source Files' and 'Target Files'.

    I hope this helps!

    All the best,

    Ali Slight smile

    emoji


    Generated Image Alt-Text
    [edited by: Trados AI at 6:21 PM (GMT 0) on 28 Feb 2024]
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