Category Archives: Computer-aided Translation

Have you ever reviewed a large file in SDL Trados Studio with numerous repetitions and struggled with confirmed segments not being propagated to the rest of the file? Here is what to do.

I was recently asked to translate a large Excel file containing 40,000+ rows. The total word count was not so big, about 50k new words. With this article I would like to share my experience and problems processing this translation in … Continue reading →

If you read my articles regularly, you are already know that I dislike Across. Across is difficult to use, does not offer feature that are readily available in other CAT tools, and rather slows me down during my work instead of … Continue reading →

I recently accepted a large proofreading job to be completed in SDL Trados Studio 2014. All seemed to be fine until I tried to open some of the project files. This article describes how to deal with “Corrupt file: Missing … Continue reading →

I have recently run into the problem of not being able to deliver completed project due to strange behavior of Across in terms of required Quality Management checks. I assume this is not an uncommon problem, so this article describes … Continue reading →

I have been working with Across for several years, but I never got rid of impression that this CAT tools is very user-unfriendly and bugged. A great limitation is a lack of means for an easy transfer of projects between … Continue reading →

Imagine you have a large translation memory in Translator’s Workbench (Trados 2007) format with thousands of units and one day, when you try to open the TM, you get this error: “50050: Source segment is empty!” You cannot use the TM … Continue reading →

I am not one of those who criticize the ribbon in Microsoft and other software. On the other hand, while the large monitor of my desktop PC offers a plenty of working space, I cannot say the same about my … Continue reading →

Not all translators have all of the complex software tools available. Imagine you have a TMX file and you need to extract its contents into a bilingual Excel file. This article describes how to perform this ?data digging? with Microsoft … Continue reading →

SDL products often bring various surprises and I cannot say that they are always positive. On Friday, I experienced an error message “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” shown by the SDL Multiterm 2014 Convert and Desktop … Continue reading →

If you use the MyMemory plug-in for SDL Trados Studio, your translated segments will often be assigned the AT (Automated Translation) origin. This also includes the MT (machine translated) segments. While AT origin does not necessarily mean that such segment … Continue reading →

Almost every freelance professional with a solid client base outsources jobs sometimes, either due to lack of time or a client requires a different language pair. Do you have fellow translators, who do not work with any CAT tool, and … Continue reading →

Despite Transit XV is quite obsolete tool, it is still used by numerous (mostly) German companies. Not all of my colleagues, whom I give some jobs, are working with Transit, so from time to time I am facing a need … Continue reading →

As a blogger and professional translator, I am glad that the people read my posts. Besides being a personal knowledge base to remember procedures and problems that I once solved, this site is to provide my readers with useful in-sight … Continue reading →

After installing a Java 7 runtime environment last week, I experienced a problem with SDL Multiterm 2011. If you happen to have a non-functional Multiterm after performing Java update, you may try whether the following solution works for you.