Paul , Nathanael Fourie I logged a case with the appstore team to see if we can optimise the find/replace given you both had varied results: SDLCOM-4463

Thanks Lydia Simplicio !

Btw, Paul, it seems as though the Search & Replace function in Toolkit does "work" (for both source and target segments), it's just that it doesn't show immediately in Trados; neither if you click on "Preview" or if you go out of the current project you're working (or trying to replace stuff in) and come back again.

It seems as though the changes made to the sdlxliff file only reflect after physically closing Trados and opening it again.

Nathanael Fourie 

Nathanael Fourie said:

It seems as though the changes made to the sdlxliff file only reflect after physically closing Trados and opening it again.

This also needs to be fixed because it also affects what you see in the UI.  You can run the same operation again and again and it never refreshes with the correct info.  But this is useful information.

Nathanael Fourie said:

It seems as though the changes made to the sdlxliff file only reflect after physically closing Trados and opening it again.

Can you also achieve this by clearing the file from the sdlxliff toolkit and reloading it?

Paul 

Paul said:

Can you also achieve this by clearing the file from the sdlxliff toolkit and reloading it?

Yes. Just tested it now. I opened a test file, searched for \.+$ and replaced with nothing.

It didn't initially remove all the full stops, but after clearing the file, reloading it and searching for \.+$, no results were shown, which means the operation had worked.

Thanks Nathanael Fourie 

So it is a refresh issue... let's see if we can resolve easily.  But good to know the solution works for your task as this is much safer!