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"Update from bilingual review" not working (and driving me crazy)!

Michael Beijer

Hi guys,

OK, so this is driving me crazy. I am working on an app (https://supervertaler.com/ + https://github.com/michaelbeijer/Supervertaler) that imports bilingual files exported from various CAT tools, translates them, and export the bilingual file again so it can be re-imported into the person's CAT tool project.

CafeTran and memoQ bilingual files work flawlessly, but I am having serious trouble getting the Trados ones to be reimported back into my project (using: Update from bilingual review).

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

So far, there is no way I can get Supervertaler to generate a valid file that can be reimported. What's worse, even if I generate one of them, and then manually paste in the translations into the 4th column ("Target segment"), they still do not get reimported back into the project! A while ago, when I was struggling with the same problem, I remember a gotcha, but I can't seem to remember what it was.

A few questions:

  • Does track changes need to be switched on in these files? 
  • Do the tags need to be formatted exactly the same? My program does this.

 Anyway, any tips or suggestions would be most welcome!

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    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:

    A table with a header labeled 'Segment ID' and a single column containing a unique identifier: 12fdc2d6c-de13-4de7-8e97-c830adee3fe1.

    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.

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    Hi Paul,

    Yes, I was aware of those little numbers, although, oddly, there appear to be none in my current file:A table with columns labeled Segment ID, Segment status, Source segment, and Target segment. The first row shows 'Claims' in the Source segment and 'Conclusies' in the Target segment.

    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:

    A task results window showing a warning message: 'There are no tracked changes in review file' followed by a file path. The status indicates 'Completed (0 errors, 1 warnings)'. 
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    Hi Paul,

    Yes, I was aware of those little numbers, although, oddly, there appear to be none in my current file:A table with columns labeled Segment ID, Segment status, Source segment, and Target segment. The first row shows 'Claims' in the Source segment and 'Conclusies' in the Target segment.

    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:

    A task results window showing a warning message: 'There are no tracked changes in review file' followed by a file path. The status indicates 'Completed (0 errors, 1 warnings)'. 
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    [edited by: RWS Community AI at 4:32 PM (GMT 0) on 4 Dec 2025]
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