TBO

If your XLF files are EN source and no target, and ES source with no target, then yes.  Just create an alignment project add an en-es TM (or es-en) and then select the files you want to align.  Once aligned and updated into your TM create a new project with the source XLF and pretranslate from the TM you created when aligning.

Hi Paul,

My XLF files are EN source and no target, and ES source with not target.

But I get this error message when trying to aling the files:

TBO

I suggest you try it with a single pair first and see if you have this problem?  If you do see if you can even open one of these files for normal translation?  Could be there is something wrong with them as Studio is quite picky when it comes to files like XLIFF and adheres rigidly to the specification.

I can aling a single pair, and I can open them in Trados for normal translation as well.

Y also tried aligning the source sdlxliff files with the target sdlixff file, but I get the same error. 

TBO

Can you add all your source files, and then manually add one target at a time?  Perhaps there is a problem with one or two of the files?

Also, what version of Studio are you using?

I have only one target file.

I also tried adding only two source files and the target file, but it doesn't work.

Is there any way to merge the source xlf files into one? that would be a possible solution.

I have Studio 2019.

TBO

TBO said:

I have only one target file.

ok - so this is the problem.  The idea of alignment is to align file to file.  Perhaps, you could copy the target file as many times as are needed to have the same number as you do for the source files.  Then you could align them.  But I have to say I doubt this would be very productive unless you are absolutely sure the content in the target file matches all the content in the source files?

I only really understood this just now despite you writing it in the original title... my apologies.

TBO said:

Is there any way to merge the source xlf files into one? that would be a possible solution.

This would be the best solution, although possibly still quite tricky.  Do you know which order they should be in?  Whilst you can align non-aligned segments I can imagine it being quite a messy affair!

There are also tools like this for example which can merge XLF files if you have too many to do it manually:

https://github.com/jaroslavsvak/xlf-merge

Manually is simple with a text editor, but if you have a lot it may not be practical.

TBO

TBO said:

I have only one target file.

ok - so this is the problem.  The idea of alignment is to align file to file.  Perhaps, you could copy the target file as many times as are needed to have the same number as you do for the source files.  Then you could align them.  But I have to say I doubt this would be very productive unless you are absolutely sure the content in the target file matches all the content in the source files?

I only really understood this just now despite you writing it in the original title... my apologies.

TBO said:

Is there any way to merge the source xlf files into one? that would be a possible solution.

This would be the best solution, although possibly still quite tricky.  Do you know which order they should be in?  Whilst you can align non-aligned segments I can imagine it being quite a messy affair!

There are also tools like this for example which can merge XLF files if you have too many to do it manually:

https://github.com/jaroslavsvak/xlf-merge

Manually is simple with a text editor, but if you have a lot it may not be practical.

I agree, I doubt this manual job worths the effort, but this is a request from a client.

I will try your suggestions.

Thanks a lot for your help, Paul.