The TM updated only once

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Hi everybody, 
 Behind my question of December and the reply received, I have seen that the TM updated only once. All projects made after my question, have been creating to using &laquo; prepare without project TM &raquo; for the automatic update or using &laquo; prepare &raquo;, and update with Main TM. 
 I can use the TM partially, but I can&rsquo;t use for update the new translated segments. 
 In the same way, I have tried to group the TM with &laquo; Upgrade the TM &raquo; but the TM exported are composed from one source TM. 
 Could you help me, please? 
 
 Best regards

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Then please check, if you are performing the operations certainly on that TM and not on any other TM (maybe even with the same name), but located elsewhere. Or do you not confirm the segments in the translated document? With unconfirmed segments the TM won't update - neither during the translation process, nor while using batch tasks.

Paul · Answer

Hi Agnes du Perray 
 Unknown said: I have been working for months with the same TM and nothing is updated, even though I finalize the documents on a 100% complete translation. 
 It sounds to me as though you are using Project TMs and not looking in the right place for the updates. If you can drop me an email with your skype details we can look at this now together? pfilkin@sdl.com 
 Regards 
 Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Agnes du Perray 
 
 You do not need to finalize a project if you don't want to. All it does is these things:
 
 updates the Main Translation Memories 
 saves out the target files 
 closes the project

You don't need to go through any sign-off process unless you choose to use this to help you see what you have reviewed on a second, or third pass through the translation for your own benefit 
 
 If you have a TM attached and set to update, and if you confirm your translations as you work then all your work will be in the TM anyway. I suggest you do these things: 
 
 Make sure that your TM has the "update" box checked in your Project Settings (not File -> Options) 
 Hover over the name of the TM and see the location. Make sure you are checking the correct TM when you look at it to see how many TUs are in it 
 In your Project Settings do you see two TMs for every one you added... with one indented slightly below the other? If you do then you have used a project TM and this will only contain confirmed translations for that project. If you run the update Main TM batch task, or finalize then that action will update your Main TMs too. 
 
 Perhaps you can share some screenshots of your settings and this may help us to help you.

Paul · Answer

Hi Agnes du Perray 
 Unknown said: Unfortunately my work PC is not equipped with a camera or microphone 
 You won't need a camera... I only need to see your screen. I can also call you on the phone while we do this if you like?

Paul · Answer

Hi Agnes du Perray , 
 
Also check two other things: 
 
First make sure that all your segments have been confirmed. 
 
Second, I note that you have created a multilingual project and so one thing you might have done is added TMs for FR (France) for example, but actually translated the language pair going to FR(Canada). In this case nothing will get updated because you translated into one variant and didn't have TMs for that variant in your project. Worth checking!! 
 
If you did this in error, and I suspect you did, then remove the TMs from your project, then add them back again using AnyTM. This will allow you to update them for both variants without the ned for separate TMs.

Paul · Answer

Hi Agnes du Perray , 
 
There won't be a new TM. Using AnyTM allows you to update your existing TM with any language pairs. So you should have just selected the same TM using AnyTM as opposed to File-based TM.

Paul · Answer

Hi Agnes du Perray , 
 
There are various ways to set up a project, but if it was me I'd do this: 
 
1. In my File -> Options I would set up all the most used settings so all new projects used these by default (inc. TMs) 
2. I would create project templates based on previous projects for the exceptions to the defaults 
 
Then I would always create projects the same way using the default or a template. You can use the drag and drop approach, but don't use the single document option as this will lead to inconsistencies in the way your projects are created and where they are stored. So always create proper Studio projects.

Trados Studio > 1. Trados Studio

The TM updated only once