"Any" translation memories

Good morning,

Ladies & Gentlemen, I normally create a reversed TM, e.g. I have an English-Polish TM, and then I create a Polish-English one.

The language pair of the TM is indicated by the Polish and British national flags, as in the picture.

However, in the case of the encircled database it is different.

The source TM "Prawnicy" is English-Polish.

When I reverse the aforesaid TM, instead of just two flags, I have more, as I have encircled. Why is that? What does it matter?

Besides, when I translate a new file using the TM "Prawnicy" into English-Polish, the reversed base is activated. It shouldn't be like that, because the reversed TM is for  the Polish-->English language pair only, I believeScreenshot of Trados Studio showing the Translation Memories view with a list of databases. The 'Prawnicy' TM is highlighted, showing multiple flags instead of the expected two for the English-Polish language pair..

Please help me understand what I do wrong.
Best
Maciej



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  • Now you got me Paul. I cannot tell the difference between Any TM: .... and reversed TM as in the Noratel TMs in my screen shot.

    Screenshot showing two Trados Studio translation memory files named 'Noratel_ang_en-GB_pl-PL_anytmreverse.sdltm' and 'Noratel_ang_en-GB_pl-PL.sdltm'.

    On this. You have added two completely different TMs here.  One will only work en-pl and the other will only work pl-en.

    If you simply add the en-pl to all of your projects using AnyTM to add it then it will always select the right one automatically.  There is no need to select the reversed TM at all, just leave it where it can be found. So in the same location it was when you first added a TM using AnyTM.

    If you don't do this then you start ending up with TMs that contain different content which defeats the object altogether.

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