How do I prevent Trados Studio 2021 from inserting machine translations into target segments when creating a new project?

I use DeepL and every time I start a new project, Trados 2021 (16.01.2917)  inserts MT translations into the target segments. How do I prevent this new behavior?

  • You could remove DeepL, or disable it, during project creation... or

    You could change this setting which is now applied by default in 2021 because it's the "normal" thing users want to do (generally) after adding an MT engine to their project settings or templates:

    Trados Studio options menu with Translation Memory and Automated Translation settings. A tooltip suggests to uncheck the 'Copy source to target when no translation found' option.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • Change the settings in your pretranslate task:

    Trados Studio Batch Processing Settings window showing Pre-Translate Files settings with 'Minimum match value' set to 100 and 'Apply automated translation' selected for when no match is found.

    As you see in this screenshot, MT would be used for pretranslation.

    If not this is your problem, also check the settings in File -> Options -> Editor -> Automation and Project settings -> Language Pairs... -> Search

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  • Thank you very much, Paul and Jerzy! Very much appreciated.  I used the default project settings which overruled my general settings.