All my TMs stopped working.

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Hello, 
 All my TMs stopped working. I receive the same error message (find it below), and none of the options given by your AI worked. What can I do?

TIA!

Paul · Accepted Answer

Carla Lopes 
 It's suspicious that all your TMs stopped working. I note they are your D drive. Can you try copying one or two to your C drive, not on a OneDrive path, and see if they work from there? The message might be a red herring.

Paul · Answer

Carla Lopes 
 Excellent... thanks for updating us. The .sdltm-journal file temporarily holds the original state of the database during a transaction. If the write completes successfully, it&rsquo;s deleted. If the process crashes or is interrupted, it remains. This could happen for various reasons: 
 
 Trados Studio crashes or is forcibly closed 
 There is an unexpected power loss or system shutdown 
 The disk becomes full or read-only during a write operation 
 Antivirus or backup software locks the file 
 A third-party process (like a script or SQLite browser) is interacting with the TM 
 
 External drives (your D drive perhaps, or OneDrive, Dropbox etc.) can easily lead to .sdltm-journal files being left behind if the connection is unstable or interrupted. It&rsquo;s not inherently wrong to store TMs externally, but I'd strongly recommend you don't edit them, or work with them, directly from such drives to avoid data integrity risks. Good for backups, but not dynamically as you work.

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All my TMs stopped working.

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