HELP! I just bought Trados Studio and I am trying to import a TM (.tmx) file created in Wordfast Anywhere, into the online platform and it is not working.

Question

I just bought Trados Studio and I am trying to import a TM (.tmx) file from Wordfast into the online platform (I don&rsquo;t have access to the Desktop version for the moment, as I am traveling, working from a Mac computer). 
 
 So far, I have created a new TM, using the Dashboard according to the instructions. Unfortunately, when trying to import my .tmx file (which is less than 5 MB), the program tries to upload for hours - I even let it run overnight, and not a single translation unit has been added, and then I get an error code. Same when adding a Termbase. 
 
 Does anyone have any suggestions? 
 
 In advance, thank you for your help.

Paul · Answer

Vincent Yerna 
 ok - I didn't have a problem with your file. I made sure it was well formed, and removed the blank lines, but otherwise made no changes at all. I put my file here... give it a try: 
 
 en-fr.zip 
 I wonder if you messed up your file in a text editor somehow? Anyway, try the one I attached in a zip and see if you fare better. If it works you will need to look deeper ate your actual file and try to find the problematic parts. Might be worth checking with this tool as a start: 
 https://www.maxprograms.com/products/tmxvalidator.html 
 If it still fails after that I'd be happy to take a look at your actual TMX if you can share it with me? Send it to pfilkin at sdl dotcom

Paul · Answer

Vincent Yerna 
 Vincent Yerna said: we just purchased the annual support package 
 In which case you should log a case in the support portal, not in here.

Paul · Answer

Vincent Yerna 
 Vincent Yerna 
 The error mentions a validation exception, so the first place to start would be to take a look at the TMX itself. Can you copy the TMX and save it with a different name so you can mess with it in safety. Then open it in a text editor, delete all the trans-units apart from two, or three (objective is to get an innocuous test file), and then attach it to your next reply. 
 
 If I were to hazard a guess the problem is most likely in the header, but share the file as I suggested and we can take a look. 
 
 If you don't want to do that then try exporting a TMX from Trados Studio, take a look at the header, and then make sure that the one you are trying to import has the same fields... just make sure your language is ok.

Trados Cloud offerings > 2. Trados cloud offerings

HELP! I just bought Trados Studio and I am trying to import a TM (.tmx) file created in Wordfast Anywhere, into the online platform and it is not working.

Top Replies