SDL Trados Studio: Dependency file not found

Question

Hi everyone,

I wonder what does "SDL Trados Studio: Dependency file not found" Mean? 
 I did read the documentation and it's still very unclear to me. 
 However, when you want to use the real-time preview in your translation, or File > Save Target As to create your target file, you receive the same question as when you opened the package for the same document(s). Since the package does not necessarily contain the original source document, you cannot perform these interactive actions . 
 Source: 
 
 What is you not able to do? 
 Is it to preview the orignal-file while translating (example)? 
 How can you avoid from this common problem? 
 
 Thank you in advance

Walter Blaser · Answer

Hi Daniel This happens if the source file is too large (> 20 MB) to be embedded in the SDLXLIFF, as explained in the KB article. This sometimes happens with large PowerPoint files that contain a lot of embedded graphics. You can reduce the frequency of this happening by changing a parameter in your Studio: go to "Files - Options - File Types - SDLXLIFF - General" and move the ruler under "Embedding" to its maximum (100 MB). Like this, this situation will only occur for files that are larger than 100 MB. Walter

Raphaël Toussaint · Answer

I came across this issue in a project with 132 files, where the biggest source XML file was 406 Kb big, so the file size wasn't the root cause of the issue. Due to the big number of project files, opening them one by one and correct the path to the source file manually was out of question. I figured out a rather simple fix with the help of a regular expression and a grep tool (PowerGREP in my case), but it should be possible in an editor like Notepad++ as well: It is sufficient to replace the data in

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SDL Trados Studio: Dependency file not found

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