trados takes too long to search my TM

Question

I've been facing difficulty to work with my own TM. 
 Trados takes too long to search this specific TM. How can I solve this problem? 
 Trados Studio 2021 SR2 - 16.2.12.9338 
 
 Thanks for any thoughts on how I can expedite things. 
 
 best regards, 
 V&acirc;nia de Mathia Campanh&atilde;o

Paul · Answer

Vânia de Mathia Campanhão 
 Perhaps you can share some additional information to help answer this one? 
 
 where is your TM stored? Locally, on a shared drive, locally with a location synched with OneDrive etc. 
 how large is your TM? 
 what spec. is your computer?

Paul · Answer

Vânia de Mathia Campanhão 
 That is a very good question. We do have a KB on this topic and the recommendation is 100,000 TUs: https://gateway.rws.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0032215 
 However, I don't think 300,000 is too large and I'm well aware of many translators working regularly with far larger file based TMs than this. Having said this the recent versions of Trados Studio do increase the physical size of a TM considerably because of the fragment pairs created during the alignment process when you "upgrade" a TM. So depending on the type of content you have, the number of tags, the length of the segments etc. the actual size and response time is likely to vary. So with this in mind it's definitely worth testing out whether splitting it into three separate TMs does make a significant difference for you. 
 You could also play with the other recommendations and test working with your TM as a cloud-based resource to see if this improves the responsiveness. You have nothing to lose working with copies and a bit of experimenting may help. 
 Might also be worth seeing if people like Walter Blaser , Jerzy Czopik , Alison Field can offer any advice as they have been around a while working with Studio and have probably been through this themselves.

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