Hi Malorie Moneaux,

If your projects have disappeared from your Projects View, it doesn't mean they are lost. You can open them via the 'Open Project' button in your Studio 2017 Projects View then navigate to where you keep your projects. If you've never chosen a different place in your file structure to save projects to, they will be in the Studio 2017 default Projects folder on your computer:

You can also find your projects via Windows Explorer:

C:\Users\your user name\Documents\Studio 2017\Projects

Double-click on a project file as highlighted here or right-click and select 'Open with Studio':

There are more than one possible reason why your projects have disappeared from your projects view but above I've shown you how to deal with the symptom rather than the cause...

I hope this helps!

All the best,

Alison :)

Hi Malorie Moneaux,

If your projects have disappeared from your Projects View, it doesn't mean they are lost. You can open them via the 'Open Project' button in your Studio 2017 Projects View then navigate to where you keep your projects. If you've never chosen a different place in your file structure to save projects to, they will be in the Studio 2017 default Projects folder on your computer:

You can also find your projects via Windows Explorer:

C:\Users\your user name\Documents\Studio 2017\Projects

Double-click on a project file as highlighted here or right-click and select 'Open with Studio':

There are more than one possible reason why your projects have disappeared from your projects view but above I've shown you how to deal with the symptom rather than the cause...

I hope this helps!

All the best,

Alison :)

Hi Alison

My project disappeared from my project list and I couldn't load it using the method you described here. When I tried, I got the message: "This project has already been opend in SDL Trados Studio 2017and added to the project list". But I can't see the project in the project list. 

I tried several methods to open the file and I always get this message.

Do you have any idea to help me?

Thank you.

Juliana V Martins

Make sure your project filters in the "Navigation Pane" on the left are not set.

If you still cannot find the project, close Studio, go to Documents -> Studio 2017 -> Projects and open the Projects.xml in a decent text editor, then search for the project you cannot find and remove the entire project group for this project there. Then reopen Studio and reopen the project.

Hi Juliana V Martins

Here's a screenshot of Jerzy Czopik's first suggestion:

Make sure 'Show all projects' is selected in each of the highlighted dropdown menus.

Hope that helps!

All the best,

Ali

PS: if you want to be sure the person you've addressed your post to sees it then add them as an active link as I've done above for you and Jerzy. There are 2 ways to do this, you can copy the active link at the top of their post and paste it into your message or you can type their name preceded by @ so for Jerzy I typed "@jerzy" and a list of possible Jerzys appeared and I selected the correct one. Sometimes you need the surname instead if it's a common first name, or both together with no space between.

Hi Jerzy.

I edited the XML file and it worked.

Thank you!

Hi Alison

I didn't know that we could filter the projects this way. I learned something more from this situation.
Thank you

Cool, glad to hear. It was a quite uncommon idea.

Hi Juliana V Martins

I'm glad that Jerzy Czopik's suggestion solved your problem!

All the best,

Ali

HelloJerzy Czopik

I have a similar issue as Juliana had. Could you please explain what do you mean by "...then search for the project you cannot find and remove the entire project group for this project there"? I have an XML file but I am not sure what I should to do with that.

Thank you in advance!

Hi Juliana!

Could you please advice what did you exactly do with the XML file? I have the same issue and I am not pretty sure what should I do with that file. Thank you in advance!

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I'm having the same problem. Just finished seven large files for a project and everything disappeared. Would love to know how to restore everything.