Retrofit function not working properly again and again

Dear community, 
I have seen several posts about this subject, but no solution yet so I thought I bring it up again. I have the issue as several others do, too, in that I can absolutely not rely on the retrofit function to include all the changes that were made in the target translation file. It makes no difference if I give the command from the Home - Batch Task menu or from the Review - Update from reviewed target file menu. I have it over and over that I spend hours manually copying sentence by sentence from the target translation into the Trados editor in order to update my TM. This is pretty frustrating and costly in terms of time, money and nerves. I remember we´ve already had a conversation about this a while ago, Paul. That was in the Studio 2015 version. Sadly, nothing has changed in the 2017 version in that regard. It would be tremendously fantastic if this bug could be fixed :)

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  • Hi

    This feature was only ever intended to be used for minor edits to make updating a TM with changes to the target file after the translation was completed. So most cases where this fails tends to be because of the type of changes that were made which make the retrofit process difficult to achieve. The only way to see what your particular problem would be is to review the files you are trying to retrofit. This might help us explain why it fails, but won't help you make it work!

    Perhaps you can take a manual approach to this and complete the steps that Studio is actually trying to do manually? That mighth also shed some light on the problems and why they occur:

    Align the original Source file and the updated target file
    Update it into your TM

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • Hi

    This feature was only ever intended to be used for minor edits to make updating a TM with changes to the target file after the translation was completed. So most cases where this fails tends to be because of the type of changes that were made which make the retrofit process difficult to achieve. The only way to see what your particular problem would be is to review the files you are trying to retrofit. This might help us explain why it fails, but won't help you make it work!

    Perhaps you can take a manual approach to this and complete the steps that Studio is actually trying to do manually? That mighth also shed some light on the problems and why they occur:

    Align the original Source file and the updated target file
    Update it into your TM

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!

    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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