The TE Online Editor's limit of 100 simultaneously open files impacts linguists' ability to maintain consistency (uniform terminology, phrasing, and style across all project files) and perform cross-referencing (searching, propagating, and verifying content spanning multiple files). In a 178-file project, the remaining 78 files stay closed, excluding them from real-time multi-file tools.

 Specific examples may include: 

• Cross-file repetitions: Identical segments in closed files (e.g., product names) won't update automatically. Linguists must manually retranslate or propagate later (risking variants).
• Concordance/Display Filter: Linguists can't query terms/phrases across the full set. Results exclude closed files (may lead to inconsistencies).
• Review changes don't propagate: Stylistic tweaks in open files fail to update closed files.
• QA: Verification scans only open files. Cross-file errors between Files 1-100 and 101-178 go undetected without separate passes. Because of this, we need to run QA twice, for each LP in the project.