How to 'unconfirm' segments in bulk?

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I am working on a document (55, 000 words) and have reached midway of the translation. All of a sudden I noticed that all the segments even the ones that I have not yet translated are marked as confirmed. This is causing me to mark each segment as draft and basically making my work very very tedious. How can I unconfirm the segments that I have yet to translate please?

Gérard LAMBERT · Answer

Hello Emilia Balke 
 I do not know why you may want "to unconfirm segments in bulk", but several times in the past I was faced with a translation incident where, after translating and confirming a segment, I found out that all the following segments up to the end of the file, either translated or not, had been set to "confirmed", an awkward situation which I had to remedy in the easiest and quickest of ways, as follows: 
 
 clicking into the first wrongly confirmed segment in order to select it, 
 clicking, with the shift key pressed , into the last wrongly confirmed segment in order to get a batch selection, and 
 then clicking on the " Not translated " button in the scrolling list of the group of "Actions on the segment" commands almost at the right end of the command ribbon in the Editor view. 
 
 &iquest;M&aacute;s sencillo que lo tuyo, Jesús Prieto ?

Paul · Answer

Hi Omar, You're in luck as wrote a small plugin to make it easy to reset from this problem: appstore.sdl.com/.../ I don't know why it happens... I also didn't expect the app to be so useful so quickly! Nice work Kelly!

Paul · Answer

Hi Omar, You seem to have two accounts, so I guess you are logging in with the wrong one. Make sure you use the account with your licence in it. Drop me an email if you want me to merge them and we can sort this out - pfilkin@sdl.com

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Emilia Balke , 
 Maybe the app is not there anymore. 
 Anyway, you can easily filter empty and confirmed segments with Advanced Display Filter. 
 To do so, first type ^$ in the Target filed and tick Regular Expression checkbox : 
 
 Then in the Filter Attributes tab, select Translated : 
 
 Then click on the Apply Filter button on the top. Now only empty segments with the Translated status will be shown in Editor. Select them all, and set them manually as Not Translated . 
 When you are done, click on the Clear button on the top to reset the filter and continue translating.

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How to 'unconfirm' segments in bulk?

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