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Translation memory not updating

Christian Alexander Biggie

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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    Hi Paul, 

    Thanks for your reply, yes I have checked that it is the right path to the TM. 
    As for the questions, I assume it has not updated because I made a note of things I had changed, then reopened the project to close and searched for these segments, and they have not been updated. Even searching in the memory through F3 function does not work.

    You also said "Well, this would not update your TM.  But did it update your translations in the Editor?" The answer is no.

    Paul: "What bug and what Excel macro?  What does Excel have to do with this?" - When I said "they've spoken of some Excel "macro" that resolves this "bug" - I am referring to colleagues who report the same problem and say it's common. I tried asking about a solution prior to writing on this forum, and they mentioned just that, that they "think it is a bug", and further, that there is an Excel spreadsheet someone has made to resolve this apparently recurrent issue; someone has written a macro for this spreadsheet that allows for, somehow, updating the memory correctly, when all else fails, but as I say, I have not tried this and can't really say much more about it.

    Thanks again and all the best.

     
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    I'm afraid I'm at a loss to know what to suggest.  I really have no idea what you are referring to here or what you have done.  On this:

    Christian Alexander Biggie said:
    You also said "Well, this would not update your TM.  But did it update your translations in the Editor?" The answer is no.

    If this is no then why did you even expect it to update your TM.  Clearly something didn't work long before this.

    On the excel spreadsheet... sounds like nonsense to me.  Unless of course you can explain exactly what they are doing and how this would help?  There isn't even a bug here that I'm aware of.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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