Translation memory not updating

This is a frequent issue I never have enough time to report due to always having new project come in. 

When I finish a project, I always revise it externally in the native format (i.e.: MS Word) - I have just finished two large projects for two different clients, and I am trying to incorporate the changes using the final revised files.

To do this, I have tried:

Aligning the source and target documents in the Translation Memory tab.

Opening the translation memory and importing the sdlxliff files.

Reopening the file, going to Batch Tasks and selecting the second option, Revise from updated revised file.

Bafflingly, even doing all three of these, I still open the project and I can see straight away it is still the previous to last version. I've had colleagues report this very same issue also, they've spoken of some Excel "macro" that resolves this "bug" - is this possible? That this important feature would not work? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance. 

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    I think the first thing to do, assuming everything you have said here you have done 100% correctly, is to check the path to the Translation Memory you think you are updating to.

    I also think you should share a screenshot of your translation memory in our project settings.

    This might shed a little more light on the situation.

    On the things you have tried:

    Aligning the source and target documents in the Translation Memory tab.

    If you did this, and if you selected the translation memory you are checking, and if you updated the confirmed alignments into this TM... how do you know it has not updated?  What was the number of TUs before you did the alignment and upated to your TM?  On what basis do you believe it has not updated?

    Opening the translation memory and importing the sdlxliff files.

    Same questions as above.

    Reopening the file, going to Batch Tasks and selecting the second option, Revise from updated revised file.

    Well, this would not update your TM.  But did it update your translations in the Editor?

    they've spoken of some Excel "macro" that resolves this "bug"

    What bug and what Excel macro?  What does Excel have to do with this?

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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    I think the first thing to do, assuming everything you have said here you have done 100% correctly, is to check the path to the Translation Memory you think you are updating to.

    I also think you should share a screenshot of your translation memory in our project settings.

    This might shed a little more light on the situation.

    On the things you have tried:

    Aligning the source and target documents in the Translation Memory tab.

    If you did this, and if you selected the translation memory you are checking, and if you updated the confirmed alignments into this TM... how do you know it has not updated?  What was the number of TUs before you did the alignment and upated to your TM?  On what basis do you believe it has not updated?

    Opening the translation memory and importing the sdlxliff files.

    Same questions as above.

    Reopening the file, going to Batch Tasks and selecting the second option, Revise from updated revised file.

    Well, this would not update your TM.  But did it update your translations in the Editor?

    they've spoken of some Excel "macro" that resolves this "bug"

    What bug and what Excel macro?  What does Excel have to do with this?

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!

    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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