How to split a termbase to separate languages?

Hello!

I need to split a huge termbase we received from a client (the size is approx. 1,4 GB).

Using it as it is slows down the workflow of many linguists using older or weaker machines.

For this reason I saved the definition file from the existing termbase and created a new one using it.

I removed the excessive languages and left only two. Then I tried importing the export of the source termbase but zero entries were imported.

Please see part of the log file:

Import log information

General information:
Import definition name: Default import definition
Termbase name: XXX XXXX
Import file: C:\Users\user\Desktop\XXX XXXX\!Export\Export.xml
Import log file: C:\Users\user\Desktop\XXX XXXX\!Split\xx-XX_yy-YY\import.log
Exclusion file: C:\Users\user\Desktop\XXX XXXX\!Split\xx-XX_yy-YY\excl.xcl
Allow over-complete entries: false
Allow incomplete entries: true
Ignore sub-languages: true
Full reorganization: false

Import Options:
Import all entries: Add import entry as new

Original Entry Number Action Entry Number in Termbase

1 Does not conform to the target termbase definition.
Reason:
Source:

[…]


Total entries processed: 0
Total entries added: 0
Total entries merged: 0
Total entries omitted: 0
Total entries written to the output file: 0

Can you please help with this?

I tried with different import settings (i.e. with full reorganization, allowed over-complete entries) but unfortunately the result was the same.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

FYI, I am using Multiterm 2015 on Win 10 64-bit machine.

Best regards,

Dimmo

Parents Reply
  • Save the database definition as you did, remove unnecessary languages creating definitions per language pair.

    Now open the source TB and EXPORT each language pair into an individual file. Then you create TBs for these language pairs and import the partial exports in each language pair. Otherwise it will not work - as you have overdefined entries and after importing the whole xml each language pair TB would contain ALL languages, just showing only two.

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