Hi Birgit,

The answer to your question is threefold though you may already know the first two things I'll explain here...

1: You can prevent source being copied to target when pretranslating via this setting:

 in Project settings or under File>Options if you wish this to always be the case.

2: When you're actually translating, you can prevent source being automatically saved to target by unchecking this box:

 under File>Options

3: As far as preventing anything from being saved automatically to the final target document, you need to find a way of filling the target segment with something that will not matter in the target document, then lock it as 'Draft' so it does not get auto-updated by any process such as autopropagation.

See here:

https://community.sdl.com/solutions/language/translationproductivity/f/90/p/10067/38529?Redirected=true#38529

That should give you an idea of how to achieve what you wish.

If not, or you wish to ask me further questions about this, I'm out from now till about 6 hours' time which is why I've given you the first 2 above, in case that's part of the problem for you.

Hope this helps,

All the best,

Ali

Hi Alison,

Many thanks for your suggestions! I'm familiar with 1) and 2), but this alone doesn't to the trick. Regarding 3), the thing is that I'd already tried inserting a space before converting, and while I thought I remembered it had worked once, last time I tried it wouldn't. But you know what? Now I tried with a different file (with a space and, just to try it out, with a left to right mark as well) - and it worked! I have no idea why it sometimes does and at other times doesn't, but I'll just hope it'll work whenever I try it in the future.

Thanks again :-)

Best,

Birgit