Valentina Luridiana Galati

Valentina Luridiana Galati said:

I apparently have no interference from the antivirus.

How do you know?  We know that it's no problem on another computer. so that narrows it down to something on your machine.  The most common problem for this sort of issue is your security software:

https://gateway.rws.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0032531

It might also be related to your resources being on OneDrive or a synched drive somewhere... possibly the result of lookahead even trying to work on recovering a block of segments to memory as you work.  So perhaps try these two things:

1. copy your TMs to a local folder, and not one that gets synched to anywhere.  Remove your TMs from your project and add them back again from the new location. 
2. try turning off Lookahead:
   

One of these may help.

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your supersonic answer.

My folder is local, so no problem on that side.
As for the antivirus, I checked it with an IT person at some point back in June. I don't remember the details, but I will go through the steps of the link you suggest just in case.

Anyway, my overall impression is not that something is wrong on my machine, but rather that the software accumulates trash until it overflows. These are the reasons:

1) The bad behaviour usually happens toward the end of longish projects.
2) With a freshly started project, the program responds swiftly; as it goes on, it becomes slower; for instance, it may pause a couple of seconds after I hit Ctrl-Enter. The TM results window also starts to lag behind, requiring a few seconds to update or not updating at all until I move to the following segment (that is, segment n+2 wrt to the TM result window).
3) With a freshly started project, the TB is stable, but as it goes on, it starts to disconnect (and can only be reconnected by restarting the software). This is VERY annoying.

Just to give you the whole picture, my long projects are in the 20K words range and my TMs in the 1k segment range, so they are still quite small. I run Windows on a Mac via VMware with a 24GB RAM, a configuration which allowed me to happily use Studio 2015 during 5 years without any problems. This said:

4) I do all my Internet search on Mac and I don't use internet on Windows unless I use an AT engine. In at least two occasions, the problems arose during the final revision of a completed translated project which made no use of AT nor any other internet resource: this implies I was just editing my work locally, so there was nothing to arouse the antivirus suspicion, I think. 

I will check the antivirus hypothesis and let you know. Thank you again.

I can suggest that you use a plugin called TuToTm. It allows you to add individual segments to TMs. You can type the problem segment, source and target, select your active TM and click 'Update TM'. Then, if you have the 'Apply best match after successful lookup' box checked in Options/Editor/Automation, Trados will insert translation into the problem segment and pass it by without focusing on it when you click Ctrl+Enter anywhere before the problem segment.
I only observed this behavior with GroupShare projects and I am actually not sure if that works for you, but you can try. At least, this is easier than re-installation.

Thank you, Stepan! While it unfortunately didn't do the trick, it did move the first critical segment down by two. This might imply there's something weird going on with the TM, so it provides me with another lead to follow.
In any case, I didn't know this plugin and it's a nice discovery — thank you!

Thank you, Stepan! While it unfortunately didn't do the trick, it did move the first critical segment down by two. This might imply there's something weird going on with the TM, so it provides me with another lead to follow.
In any case, I didn't know this plugin and it's a nice discovery — thank you!