What is the best way to convert a memoQ TM to SDL?

Question

Hi Folks, 
 I am new to SDL Studio. Have done all my work in memoQ so far. Now need to convert my memoQ TMs to .sdltm and am looking for the best way of doing it. Exporting from memoQ to TMX and then importing/upgrading TMX in Studio 2017 results in huge losses/multiple errors (20-40% of the units seem to be lost in the process). 
 If there a work-around? E.g. some way of trimming a large TMX file to a simple two-column BL table outside CAT tools (I don't care about formatting or any metadata in my TMs, just need bare units) and then importing this table into .sdltm without any loss? 
 Thanks in advance for any suggestions or pointers to the relevant resources. 
 Yuri

Paul · Answer

Hi Yuri Balashov , 
 
I doubt they are losses. Studio doesn't need to keep duplicates while memoQ does. Duplicates could be this for example: 
 
1,234.56 
97,345.21 
5.23 
80.001 
 
If you imported these into a Studio TM you would only get one TU. If you translated a document with these four segments in it all four would be 100% matches even though there was only one TU in there. 
 
There will be other things like this, but it would be worth you seeing what sort of content is in your TMX as it's very likely it's just bloated with unnecessary data. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: SDL did generate an error log in importing/upgrading my memoQ TMX, told me that there were about 6000 errors (out of about 160K units), and produced a large error TMX file ("... en-US_ru-RU_error.tmx") 
 Did you review the log? What sort of problems were mentioned? The reason I ask is because even the things I mentioned above would cause an error log like this. 
 Regards 
 Paul

Almudena Ballester · Answer

Hi Yuri, I had exactly same problem when importing several tmx generated by Transit in an .sdltm. For evey TM I converted, I kept the non-valid segments (which you obtain in General import options -> Export invalid translation units), and edited it in Notepad++ with a macro I created myself. This macro simply looks for the elements that Studio doesn't like and delete them. Then you save the file and re-import it in Studio TM. As an example (depending on the tags you have to delete): the macro looks for <ept(.*?)/> and replace to nothing "" - regular expression activated. Hope this helps, Almudena

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What is the best way to convert a memoQ TM to SDL?