Hi all

I have a recurring problem (more like a pet peeve) with a particular client who sends through .sdlxliff files. The files themselves are fine, but the client always applies their TM with "copy source" for unmatched segments, and those segments are always marked as "draft".

I find it extremely irritating to have to delete the content from each target segment all the time, so I wanted to use the segment filter function in Review tab to lock only the segments that got an actual match (100%/CM/Fuzzy), so that I can safely empty the remaining segments.

Is there a way to do this? The file will contain segments of these types:

• 100% matches - want to lock these
• fuzzy matches - want to lock these
• draft - but are really "untranslated" segments

While I could filter for 100% and lock those, then filter for fuzzy and lock those, SDL Trados Studio does not allow me to lock a selection of segments if there is even one segment in the range that is locked (even if filtered out). To illustrate the problem, suppose I have this series of segments:

1. 100%
2. 80%
3. 90%
4. 100%
5. draft
6. 95%
7. 99%
8. 100%

I first filter for 100% segments, select all of them and lock them. That will go fine. Now I filter for fuzzy segments, and select them, but I won't be able to lock the whole selection because segment 4 (even though it is filtered out) is already locked, and my right-click menu will show the "Unlock" command instead, which obviously will do nothing. (The shortcut key Ctrl-L will also do nothing.)

So is there a better way to pick out those "draft" segments that were results of "copy source" actions and really should have been "untranslated"?