Could not find part of the path

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Hi, 
 
 I received a project from a client and when I import it, I get this fault message. "Could not find part of the path", I searched the forum and the documentation but could not really find anything that solves my problem. This is the second time this happened to me. The first time, I just used the word document they sent and created a new project, but I am worried that this will keep happening. 
 Any idea? 
 
 Thank you

Oana Nagy · Accepted Answer

Hello Melanie Martin , 
 Could you explain how you are importing the package please? 
 Where are you saving the SDLPPX before opening in Studio? 
 The more information you can provide, the easier it will be for us to find what is causing the problem.

Priscila Wilke · Answer

I just had the same question, but I discovered that the file I need to add to the Project, was in many subfolders level, and the name convention of the file itself was a bit long, so I guess the length of the path was unrecognizable for the Trados. I moved it to my Desktop and created a folder where I added it, and I was able to create the project. To figure this out, I recalled when I worked as a PM for an LSP, it was a known issue, that before Trados was integrated into a PMS, then adding the file directly to the dropbox didn't create it anymore.

Oana Nagy · Answer

Hello Melanie Martin , 
 If you have checked all locations (both the default Studio folder and the folder bou have chosen- 
 then I would suggest that the Project Template is corrupt. 
 Please try recreating the project and use a new template. 
 Does this help?

Oana Nagy · Answer

Hello Melanie Martin , 
 What version of Studio are you running? 
 Could you share the original package with me please (swhale@sdl.com) so i can take a look?

Georgios Tziakos · Answer

For me this is caused by the default project folder name as set by the client including special characters (- = etc.) or perhaps being too long to create a proper Windows directory name. SDL Studio 2015 allows me to manually change the project folder name created when opening the package, but 2019 does not. Ask the client to stop using weird project names. Ironically, the only way I managed to get Studio 2019 to let me chagne the project folder was by first going to my Projects folder and creating a dummy directory of the project's default name. Then, opening the package automatically told me "You can't save the project here, it already exists" and prompts to enter a folder name, which solves the issue.

If this helped Melanie Martin, let me know, so I can let others know on the rest of the threads. I don't get why they disable basic functionalities like this in professional software...

Devin Gilbert · Answer

I agree with Georgios Tziakos that it may be weird characters in the project name. This exact thing happened to me, and my project name was full of weird characters. I don't think a MultiTerm termbase could be the problem though because the package I was trying to open had one of these. I solved the issue by deselecting the two options in the wizard (something like "Append Project Name" and "Use Default Location"), then I inserted my own name for a project folder after "Projects\" in the path field. It opened without issue after I did this.

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