This has been a bug in Trados Studio since 2009. I reported how to reproduce it here.

One thing you can do when this happens is immediately quit Trados Studio without saving, then restart it and use the auto-saved version of your file.

John Fry

John Fry said:

This has been a bug in Trados Studio since 2009. I reported how to reproduce it here.

Probably the reason this doesn't get any serious attention is for two reasons:

1. your explanation involves doing something that has never been a feature in the first place.  Better to right-click and change the status if you want to confirm multiple segments in one go.  Using the Confirm command will not add all the selected entries to a TM anyway so that action is pointless.
2. It's not a bug (your explanation of the problem) because it only happens when you attempt something that isn't supported anyway.  So the product manager, if he's even aware of this, is very unlikely to see this as an urgent issue that needs to be resolved ahead of other things.

I think you can all refer to this as a bug if you like.  But it won't help to get anything changed.  A better approach might be to suggest the Confirm action does nothing at all when multiple segments are selected.  That seems a more sensible and achievable solution. Having the Confirm change the status and also update a TM is very unlikely to get development time as we have a batch task for that purpose.  Either way I suggest to post your thoughts on this in the ideas section and get others to vote on it.  If it's really a problem that affects so many users surely it'll be easy to get more than enough votes to get a little support.

If you just wanted a quick way to change the status of multiple segments then perhaps use the segment status switcher from the appstore.

Paul, I think this happens by accident, not because users *want* to confirm multiple segments. The relevant facts as I see them are: (1) Users press Ctrl+Enter hundreds of times per day; (2) Every time you press Ctrl+Enter there is a small chance that all of the segments in your file (in some cases thousands of them) will be confirmed, creating an extremely stressful situation for a freelancer on a deadline (like Berthold) who is not prepared for it.

Paul, I think this happens by accident, not because users *want* to confirm multiple segments. The relevant facts as I see them are: (1) Users press Ctrl+Enter hundreds of times per day; (2) Every time you press Ctrl+Enter there is a small chance that all of the segments in your file (in some cases thousands of them) will be confirmed, creating an extremely stressful situation for a freelancer on a deadline (like Berthold) who is not prepared for it.

John Fry

John Fry said:

I think this happens by accident, not because users *want* to confirm multiple segments.

I see.  That isn't what I can derive from your explanation of how to reproduce it or the rest of the conversation in that thread.

It would be very helpful to know how to reproduce this problem from a single keystroke without doing something else first that selected multiple segments.  Perhaps this is the solution:

Paul said:

A better approach might be to suggest the Confirm action does nothing at all when multiple segments are selected. 

That at least would ensure this problem could not happen, even by accident.