Merging TMs

Question

Hi everyone, I want to merge my TM to the client's TM he sent me as a reference. The goal would be to have ONE TM that he could use in the future. 
 Can anyone explain to me how to do it? 
 Thank you!

Paul · Accepted Answer

clothilde courtois 
 Maybe this will help... if it doesn't please send me an email and we'll look at this together on your machine - pfilkin@sdl.com

Paul · Answer

Hi Geneviève Dufour 
 This video is pretty old, but the principle is the same: 
 
 You could also export one to a TMX and imprt into the other... but merging is quite a useful feature.

Paul · Answer

clothilde courtois 
 Perhaps this will help get some clarification over what you are doing, and seeing. If I add 8 TMs in the flavours you menton I see this at first: 
 
 Next I choose the second option to create an output translation memory for each language pair: 
 
 This gets me four TMs. The reason for this is because the language variants not merged, and the different language directions are not meged either. So this is what I get: 
 
 The four at the top are my new TMs. 
 When you do this it would be sensible to check the flags shown in the screen as these will show you what flavours you have irrespective of what flavour you might have called them. 
 Perhaps this will help you find your problem?

Paul · Answer

clothilde courtois 
 I can only think that you have got your TMs in all different locations and Studio has placed the merged TMs into different folders. If you can't find them try this: 
 1. Put a copy of all your TMs into one folder 
 2. Merge them 
 3. Identify that have the TMs you expected 
 4. Delete the ones you don't need.

Paul · Answer

Yuko Kinami 
 please review this article.... 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2020/08/15/some-you-win-some-you-lose/

Paul · Answer

Valeria Maria Tafel 
 You need to install this app: 
 
 All explained in here: 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2020/08/15/some-you-win-some-you-lose/

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Merging TMs

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