I had almost finished a 30,000 words translation when I aligned a new pair of documents, then ran a batch task to re-translate. When the document reopened ALL OF MY WORK HAD DISAPPEARED. I realized then that I had not clicked « update » for any of the translation memories used for the translation. Is there any way I can recuperate my work? Please tell me there is! The translation is due tomorrow!!!!!!
Please, please, please HELP!! I am in tears!
1. make a copy of you TM(s) at safe place (Never use it, delete it when you finish all your work done well)
2. make a fresh start of your project with "the" TM(s) and your raw documents.
3. Done
Too Easy
I don't understand what you mean by "
"I have never tried but..
you just copy your "sdlxliff" from the "source" folder into "target" folder and start your translation from the "1" segment."
if you do not understand it, never mind, it is not your way to go.
regards
Thank you for taking the time, nevertheless. Have a nice evening.
Am typing on my phone, so excuse typos.
Not 100% sure, but even if no TMs get updated, don't the translated target segments get saved to the project files? That is: the .sdlxliff files. If so, there are various ways to get the translations back out of them and into yr project
First step: make copies of ALL project files before doing ANYTHING else.
Then have a look at the contents of the sdlxliff files..
Michael
Ps: what time is it due tomorrow?
Hi Michael. I checked in the "autosave" folder, and the only file there is the latest version, i.e. the one generated after my last "pre-translate", with all my translation lost. So I am not sure what I could save. Anywhere else to look?
Each Studio project consists of a folder, with several sub-folders. For example, I translate from Dutch into English, so mine always have:
‘en-GB’
‘nl-NL’
‘Reports’
(sometimes some other stuff/folders)
… and a project file, with file ending: .sdlproj
Have a look in the src and trgt folders, in case something is left undestroyed.
I did, the new "pre-translated" file is all that is accessible there :-(
hmmm
take a screenshot of target folder, I can not tell you anything positive though
just like this;
my target foler is "ko-KR" there is nothing else but several default "sdlxliff"s as you see.
Damn. And you are 100% sure your translations didn't get saved to any TMs at all, maybe even by mistake?
If not, things are indeed not looking good.
There are a few golden rules (at least in my book) that seem to have been broken here,:
1. always make sure your work is getting saved to a TM, and
2. always have full backups (local + online) of all files you work and which change, and can roll back to any time in the past.
~
Looks like it might be time to quickly pre-translate the whole thing with DeepL/Google Translate, and then try to race thought it and ‘post-edit’ it, hoping you remember some of what you have been working on now for many days :-(
Sorry I can't be of more help! This is a truly horrible thing to have to go though. We've all been there, albeit some of us perhaps not so spectacularly as others.
Damn. And you are 100% sure your translations didn't get saved to any TMs at all, maybe even by mistake?
If not, things are indeed not looking good.
There are a few golden rules (at least in my book) that seem to have been broken here,:
1. always make sure your work is getting saved to a TM, and
2. always have full backups (local + online) of all files you work and which change, and can roll back to any time in the past.
~
Looks like it might be time to quickly pre-translate the whole thing with DeepL/Google Translate, and then try to race thought it and ‘post-edit’ it, hoping you remember some of what you have been working on now for many days :-(
Sorry I can't be of more help! This is a truly horrible thing to have to go though. We've all been there, albeit some of us perhaps not so spectacularly as others.
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