Problem downloading DGT TMs

Question

Hi, 
 I'm having trouble downloading the bilingual extractions (FR-EN and DE-EN) from the DGT TM web page: ec.europa.eu/.../dgt-translation-memory the DGT Translation Memory 
 My overall aim is to create one large TM for each of my lang combinations (FR-EN and DE-EN) so I can then create Autosuggest dictionaries in Trados by merging the DGT TMs with my own smaller main TM for each lang pair. I'm following Paul Filkin's guidance on this: multifarious.filkin.com/.../ 
 I work on a Mac (MacOS Sierra) and run Trados using Parallels Desktop with Windows 10 installed. 
 I first tried to download the TMXtract.jar file onto Windows. I have Java installed but when I click on the downloaded TMXtract file nothing happens. 
 I then decided to download the TMXtract file onto the MacOS but couldn't understand the instructions on the above DGT web page. I've not found any recent advice for Mac users on how to successfully download the bilingual extractions. 
 Has anyone got any experience working with a Mac and trying to download the bilingual extractions for use in Trados? Or has anyone else come across the problem I found in Windows? 
 Thanks in advance! 
 Mark

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hello Mark Leach , 
 
Funnily enough this problem was raised in an online conference I participated in this afternoon. I was asked this question and mentioned that this application worked for me, but that perhaps the problem was related to running on a MAC. I said this because I noted your post just before the event. 
 
I then checked this TMXtract.jar on my computer this evening and it didn't work!! Something has hijacked the file association and I have been unable to reset it. Eventually after some time researching this I came across this site: 
 
 johann.loefflmann.net/.../index.html 
 
Normally I would not run stuff like this, and I'm not recommending it either, so you run it at your own risk. But, I did after a few hours of frustration and it worked! I also played around with Studio and MultiTerm afterwards just in case ;-) All seems to be well. If a website can be trusted this one does look genuine, but as I said you do this at your own risk. 
 
Alternatively you can try and fix it using the DGT official solution which did not work for me at all, and is very difficult to follow since it was original posted before Studio even existed. So for an older operating system. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Mark Leach , 
 
How many of the available downloads did you want? I have the 2014, 2015 and 2017 downloads on my laptop already and can extract these two language pairs for you if you like? I do think using all of them will be too big and probably very unnecessary but let me know. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Mark Leach 
 Here you go: 
 fr-en: 1,058,119 TUs de-en: 1,059,016 TUs 
 I put them here: 
 Extracted Pairs.zip

Paul · Answer

Hi Mark Leach , 
 
Just adds more fuel to my already burning dislike of Macs! See if you can download them successfully from here: 
 
 www.dropbox.com/.../(de-en)_and_(fr-en).zip 
 
If not I'll need to load two separate files, each nearly a Gb in size to accommodate this. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: There are apparently compatibility issues between Microsoft zip files and Macs. 
 Don't you access them through Windows in parallels instead of your MAC?

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: I will now write to DGT to ask them to update their file. Until they do, try with older Java versions. 
 Indeed... I asked them months ago and I don't think I was the first!

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