For the last two days, I have been working on a huge document (7000 words) using Trados 2014. I have shut down my computer yesterday, opened it today and wanted to finish my work (deadline is tomorrow) but COULDN'T because Trados decided to reinstall itself and after that refused to recognise the work previously done (it claims it can not recognise the file format).
It is not the first time this bloody programme does it, and it usually happens with the files of about similar length. I have two questions. 1) how can I recover the work that has been done? 2) how can I prevent it from doing this again (it is, of course, possible to switch to a different TM software, but this is more of a last resort).
Thank you