Michael Beijer 

Michael Beijer said:

I know that these files are fragile, but is it still really this bad?

I don't think it's bad - but it is fragile in that you need to maintain the structure.  I can recall being at a conference with the developer well over a decade ago where one of the memoQ founders discussed what we were doing and thought we were "very brave" to introduce the features we were making available for this because of the reality that users rarely do what we think they will!!

The segment ID is the place people often go wrong and lose this or break it when they work in other tools.  If you increase the size of the font you'll see it:

Maybe that's your problem?

Presumably you've tried comparing the before and after files to see where the differences lie?  Also compare the underlying xml.

Michael Beijer 

In fact this is a better view of the potential to break it.  In normal size they just look like simple dots... but they're not:

Hi Paul,

Yes, I was aware of those little numbers, although, oddly, there appear to be none in my current file:

Supervertaler recreates the file exactly, only changing the translations in the 4th column.

And as I said, it doesn't even work if I manually insert the translations into the (otherwise unchanged) bilingual review file right after it is exported from Trados. This is very mysterious.

I also got the following error on one of the occasions where it failed to import: