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Language Resource Template reset to default :(

tfennell

OK - I had a major problem last night.

Over the last week, I have invested 4-5 hours updating my Russian Language Resource Template with a large number of abbreviations, and a number of complex segmentation rules using regular expressions.

On Friday night I created a project using the Language Resource Template without a TM, and the files segmented exactly as I wanted them too.

On Tuesday I went to create a new memory, and found that my rules had been reset to the default Language Resource Template.

I really freaked out, because it seemed I would need to recreate all these rules.  Happily, I found a memory that still had the rules in the settings.  while it may take 30-60 minutes to manually transfer everything from the TM to the Language Resource Template, it is a better workaround than having to think up all the rules again from scratch.

Still, as /if I move forward with Studio, I need to understand how this happened.

The only thing I can think of is what happened on Monday.

My Ru-en-US project template defaults to memory that I don't want in the template (a project memory rather than a default, "big" memory), so think I decided to create a project using the Default template.  I may have updated the default template, or the RU-en-US template.  In any case, now my custom Language Resource Template is gone.

Strangely enough, on Saturday morning I emailed a copy of my Russian Language Resource Template to a partner, so that they could also enjoy the more sophisticated abbreviation and segmentation rules.  I copied it from the same location where I had my customized Russian Language Resource Template (or thought I had, it certainly seemed to be the location that I browsed to).  Now that file also has the default values.

I want to clear this up before I invest the time in transferring all the abbreviations and segmentation rules from the TM settings to the Russian Language Resource Template again.
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  • 0 in reply to Paul Filkin

    Ohhh.....and I spend 20-30 minutes replying to this, and pressed "reply" and it disappeared, and I failed to copy my lengthy message.  Is the Universe telling me something?

    Sooooooo.......
    I have only 1 Language Resource Template (LRT), for Russian, file name:
    Russian.sdltm.resource
    I always stored it in the default location, here:
    Documents\Studio 2019\Language Resource Templates

    I would access it in 2 ways:
    1. TM view, Language Resource Templates folder, right click, Open Language Resource Template, navigate to:
    Documents\Studio 2019\Language Resource Templates
    Select file:
    Russian.sdltm.resource

    2. Create new TM>Step 3 Language resources, templates box:
    - select "Russian"
    - if not there, select Browse, navigate to:
    Documents\Studio 2019\Language Resource Templates
    Select file:
    Russian.sdltm.resource

    As late as the morning of Monday, 27 April, I saw my latest customisations when I would access the Russian LRT in any of these ways.

    I also sent the file:
    Russian.sdltm.resource
    to my partner in Saint Petersburg twice, on 4 March and on Saturday, 25 April.
    He renamed these files
    001 Russian.sdltm.resource
    002 Russian.sdltm.resource
    He definitely remembers that when he used the file sent in March:
    001 Russian.sdltm.resource
    That he saw that new custom segmentation rules were applied to files.
    Now when he looks at his settings, he sees only default settings.

    When I load the 2 versions of the file:
    Russian.sdltm.resource
    After downloading them again ***from the email attachments*** to the default location:
    Documents\Studio 2019\Language Resource Templates
    I still get only the default abbreviations and no custom segmentation rules.

    I have one TM, created on Monday, 27 April, where I can still see my custom abbreviation and segmentation rules in the TM "settings."  I don't suppose there is any way to transfer these (except manually) to the current Russian Language Resource Template. 

    I want to figure out what might have happened before I do that work.

    The only think I can think of was that I used the default project template later on Monday.
  • 0 in reply to tfennell

    Just to be absolutely clear, yes, I did open the Russian Language Resource Template, and did not see my custom abbreviations or segmentation rules - everything was the default settings (only default Russian abbreviations and no custom segmentation rules).
  • 0 in reply to tfennell

    And to again me absolutely clear, when I open the settings of the Language Resource Template, the language Russian (Russia) is indeed selected in the Language: drop-down box.

    It is this only language available in the drop-down box.
  • 0 in reply to tfennell

    This is beginning to sound like a mystery we'll never get to the bottom of.  Possible reasons...

    • do you use any backup software that may have overwritten the version?
    • are you synching with onedrive or similar and maybe overwrote with an older version?
    • have you tried removing the template from your settings altogether.... then copy from your email (or whatever template you believe still contains the customisation) to a different folder and import it back into your settings?

    Hard to guess...

    tfennell said:
    I don't suppose there is any way to transfer these (except manually) to the current Russian Language Resource Template. 

    Better to recreate your template based on this working TM.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

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