I have Trados 2019 running on Windows 10. have recently installed Multiterm 2019. All my existing term bases were created using Multiterm 2015. I open Trados and click on "termbases", go to the folder where I have stored all my termbases, but the program does not recognise them. All my existing termbases have the extension .mdf, and appear as two separate files, one for each language, for example "general dictionary-English.mdf" and "general dictionary-Spanish.mdf".
Thanks for any help
Jennifer
Termbases for MultiTerm (since 2009 anyway) use the extension .sdltm. When you open one up the .sdltm will expand to introduce the following additional files... one of each for each language in your termbase:
.mdf
.mtf
The .mdf file is a MultiTerm Database File. It is the main database file that stores all the terms and their associated information in a MultiTerm termbase.
The .mtf file is a MultiTerm Fuzzy Index File. It is an index file that is used to speed up fuzzy searches in a MultiTerm termbase.
If you only have a .mdf file then you're missing the files you actually need to be able to open the termbase in any version.
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Jennifer Gray
Hi Jenny! Just to clarify, Paul meant sdltb when he mentioned the termbase extension you should be looking for. (He wrote sdltm, which is a TM file.)
Cheers,
Emma
Paul meant sdltb
Doh!! Yes, thank you. That's exactly what I meant!
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Thanks to both for your help.
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