NB I use Trados 2021, and I have installed today the SRT Filetype plugin.

JF Delannoy

Uninstall it as it’s not required. 2021 has the srt filetype out of the box. Could be that your file is finding the one you installed, which is not the same version number.

JF Delannoy

Have you tried switching to a French interface in Trados Studio and see if that helps?  I’ll test this later but in the meantime it seems worth a go.

Ach...NOK... It's not about this...

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Échec de l'enregistrement du contenu cible : Impossible de trouver la définition de type de fichier ayant l'ID Sous-titres v 1.0.0.0
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JF Delannoy

Try the following. First just open the sdlxliff you have as if it was a new project.  Immediately try and save the target.  Does that work?

If it doesn't create a new project, use the original SRT file as source and pre-translate from a TM created from your previous work.  Save the target now, does that work?

Out of interest, did you try and reuse project templates from an older version of Trados Studio?

Testing with my Trados 2019 (same machine).
Export OK. I get an srt file, which I can open in Notepad or MS Word.

Even though ".srt" is assigned with yet another Filetype designation (SubRip).

I may have to validate all the segments in Trado 2021 to have an exhaustive TM,
then apply this TM in Trados 2019.

-> It all may have to do with the soundness of my Trados 2021.
Cf the still not resolved problems evoked some months ago,
Again yesterday, I could not save to a directory of my choice.

Can I roll back from the package totally safely ?

JF Delannoy

So... when you open the project in 2021 and look here in the files view what do you see?

(Answering this one)
1 When, from Welcome, I drag and drop the existing xfliff as for a new project, it assumes this will be on the cloud, and requires a tfranslation engine, and finds none,
Or how should I open it otherwise?

2 I'll try that, hoping the TM will carry over nicely.

3 No. I did not reuse templates from Trados 2019 into Trados 2021.

JF Delannoy

JF Delannoy said:

When, from Welcome, I drag and drop the existing xfliff as for a new project, it assumes this will be on the cloud, and requires a tfranslation engine, and finds none,
Or how should I open it otherwise?

You could also just click "Translate as single document" which should not initiate a cloud workflow. 

Noted, But strange menu. If you click it defaults to Cloud without telling.


Test... not applicable. The Trados 2021 xfliff have evolved since... (affected by my Trados 2019 manip? Unclear).

Overall status:
Task OK.
Analysis unclear.


My Trados 2021 has become quirky with SP2.
If there is an upcoming version, I'll jump on it and get rid of this.

The plain-and-simple solution of reusing the TM in another copy of Trados worked OK.
I exported smoothly to srt.



JF

JF Delannoy

JF Delannoy said:

But strange menu. If you click it defaults to Cloud without telling.

In fact I agree with you.  On a personal level I don't like the default here.

JF Delannoy said:

The Trados 2021 xfliff have evolved since... (affected by my Trados 2019 manip? Unclear).

Very unclear.  I can open an SDLXLIFF from Trados Studio 2009 in 2021.

However, I'm beginning to think the problem is that you have a package or project from an older version of Trados Studio that used the old subrip filetype for the SRT.  So I think the message you got in 2021 was that it could not find the appropriate subtitle filetype in the project you tried to open.  It looked for what was installed and the project didn't have it.

So your options are either to create the target file in the older version of Trads Studio, or recreate the project in 2021 using the new filetype.

JF Delannoy

JF Delannoy said:

But strange menu. If you click it defaults to Cloud without telling.

In fact I agree with you.  On a personal level I don't like the default here.

JF Delannoy said:

The Trados 2021 xfliff have evolved since... (affected by my Trados 2019 manip? Unclear).

Very unclear.  I can open an SDLXLIFF from Trados Studio 2009 in 2021.

However, I'm beginning to think the problem is that you have a package or project from an older version of Trados Studio that used the old subrip filetype for the SRT.  So I think the message you got in 2021 was that it could not find the appropriate subtitle filetype in the project you tried to open.  It looked for what was installed and the project didn't have it.

So your options are either to create the target file in the older version of Trads Studio, or recreate the project in 2021 using the new filetype.