Checking 'Inconsistencies' for Lots of files ?

Question

Today I used this function for the first time within a single file successfully. Verification > QA Checker 3.0 > Inconsistencies 
 Now, I have 20 files in a project and need cross checking too. So, I used batch process. Looks good though, the result makes me puzzling. It is a .xml format. I can not read it with my bare eyes. 
 How can I see the result properly ? -Just like the nice result of (PlugIns) "Sdl.Community.XliffCompare" ? 
 THANKs

Evzen Polenka · Accepted Answer

Indeed, it's processing each individual file... SDL never thought about cross-checking. If you want to cross-check multiple files, you have to virtually merge them first (open them all in editor) and then run the QA check inside editor. 
 Though, the result is still half-useless since it tells you only the inconsistent segment number, but without telling from which file the segment comes... so you need to manually filter by the text of each inconsistency to see the segments... which is terrible manual work (depending on how many inconsistencies you have, of course). 
 Since SDL does not see this as bug (it was never designed to work this logical way, thus it's not a bug according to SDL), you can hardly expect any fix to be implemented in next few years (based on past experience).

Paul · Answer

Hi 
 
If you are looking for the "Check for inconsistent translations" then perhaps you can use the "Confirm and translate to next fuzzy match" with all the files open in the Editor? As long as you don't have both translations in your Translation Memory this will run through the files and stop at the segments that have translations different to those in the Memory. 
 
Evzen has no idea what we thought about and what we did not, and he's also wrong about running this QA check for this test with all files open in the Editor. I do think there is a bug here because the check doesn't work at all between the files if you have them all open. 
 
I'll check with the development team to see whether this is a know issue or not and if not I'll log the bug.

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Checking 'Inconsistencies' for Lots of files ?