Hello

I don't understand this part of the tool very well. Here is a screen shot of the language pairs, I am translating from English into Danish and I can go into the project settings and see that it is from US English on the right hand side of the panel. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

I have had a bit of a fiddle with it and have managed to get the other memories added to the lower section, but I am not sure what the difference is between the two sections. Usually everything is in the top section and updates fine.

Thanks

Chiela

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Unknown said:

What is the difference between the two boxes, can you point me at the documentation that explains the "specific language level" or "all language level pairs".

All Language Pairs allows you to apply a single set of rules to all the Translation Memories in your project and acoss all the languages if you have a multilingual project.  The specific language pairs allows you to set unique rules for the translation memories in each language pair for your project.

I know this may not make much sense if you are only working with one language pair anyway, but the logic in the application is such that if you apply any settings to the translation memoroes at the specific language pair then you will have to make all changes there for the project, including adding new translation memories.

Most users come across this message when they have received packages that were created from a multilingual project.  The project manager may have set up the rules to suit each language pair and then just sent you one language pair to work on.

This may be helpful:

https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/web/pub.xql?action=home&pub=SDL%20Trados%20Studio%20Help-v5&lang=en-US#url=/LiveContent/web/search.xql%3Fc%3Dt%26pub%3DSDL+Trados+Studio+Help-v5%26lang%3Den-US%26action%3Dsearch%26query%3Dall%2520language%2520pairs&sid=lcSearch.runSearch1553938089023&currentQuery=all%2520language%2520pairs&currentScope=&eventType=lcContent.loadDocGUID-D993EAEC-1DE5-49C3-8DC4-D6CACB2252BD&docid=GUID-D993EAEC-1DE5-49C3-8DC4-D6CACB2252BD&addHistory=true&query=&scope=&tid=&filename=GUID-43CB3C3D-476A-4219-9CDF-B1BF190DE964.xml&resource=&inner_id=&toc=false

Unknown said:

This also may be associated with another point. I did a standard install of Trados 2014, and all my translation memories were stored in a central place (C:users/trados studio 2014 etc). Then about a year ago, this didn't work for one of my customers, and I got that file to work by moving the memory into a customer file folder elsewhere. Now all the work that I do stores all the memories in that customer folder, instead of the previous generic one. I'd like to set it back to the normal global location. Where can I go to set this globally? Once I have, will I need to merge all the old and new memories together?

Hmnn...

Unknown said:

Or am I (likely!) misunderstanding completely how memories work in Trados?

Yes.

You don't need to move translation memories to have them available for you anywhere.  You simply point to the location of the translation memories in your project settings.  You can create different project templates for each customer if you like and point to different memories in whatever location you like.  Or you can set up default memories for every project in File -> Options if you don't use templates.

chiela amden

Unknown said:

What is the difference between the two boxes, can you point me at the documentation that explains the "specific language level" or "all language level pairs".

All Language Pairs allows you to apply a single set of rules to all the Translation Memories in your project and acoss all the languages if you have a multilingual project.  The specific language pairs allows you to set unique rules for the translation memories in each language pair for your project.

I know this may not make much sense if you are only working with one language pair anyway, but the logic in the application is such that if you apply any settings to the translation memoroes at the specific language pair then you will have to make all changes there for the project, including adding new translation memories.

Most users come across this message when they have received packages that were created from a multilingual project.  The project manager may have set up the rules to suit each language pair and then just sent you one language pair to work on.

This may be helpful:

https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/web/pub.xql?action=home&pub=SDL%20Trados%20Studio%20Help-v5&lang=en-US#url=/LiveContent/web/search.xql%3Fc%3Dt%26pub%3DSDL+Trados+Studio+Help-v5%26lang%3Den-US%26action%3Dsearch%26query%3Dall%2520language%2520pairs&sid=lcSearch.runSearch1553938089023&currentQuery=all%2520language%2520pairs&currentScope=&eventType=lcContent.loadDocGUID-D993EAEC-1DE5-49C3-8DC4-D6CACB2252BD&docid=GUID-D993EAEC-1DE5-49C3-8DC4-D6CACB2252BD&addHistory=true&query=&scope=&tid=&filename=GUID-43CB3C3D-476A-4219-9CDF-B1BF190DE964.xml&resource=&inner_id=&toc=false

Unknown said:

This also may be associated with another point. I did a standard install of Trados 2014, and all my translation memories were stored in a central place (C:users/trados studio 2014 etc). Then about a year ago, this didn't work for one of my customers, and I got that file to work by moving the memory into a customer file folder elsewhere. Now all the work that I do stores all the memories in that customer folder, instead of the previous generic one. I'd like to set it back to the normal global location. Where can I go to set this globally? Once I have, will I need to merge all the old and new memories together?

Hmnn...

Unknown said:

Or am I (likely!) misunderstanding completely how memories work in Trados?

Yes.

You don't need to move translation memories to have them available for you anywhere.  You simply point to the location of the translation memories in your project settings.  You can create different project templates for each customer if you like and point to different memories in whatever location you like.  Or you can set up default memories for every project in File -> Options if you don't use templates.

Thanks Paul for the quick response. I put this as a follow up to another post elsewhere, but I am getting packages from my customers with in-built TMs which are behaving in a way that I don't recognise.

What is concerning me is that options are now appearing on multiple lines and the TM doesn't appear to be updating. Am I doing something wrong to import this into the project?

I just want to be able to use the memory, have my translation being saved into it, and am worried that I am wasting my time translating this large document if the TM is not being updated.

Can you help me unpick the options I am seeing above? I don't know why some of the options are greyed out. Do I need to go back to the supplier? Am I unpackaging this in the wrong way? What do I need to do to make it work?

Thanks

Chiela