Michal Cinciala – Freelance Translator's Blog

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. Continue reading →

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 SDL Trados Studio 2014 and (ultimately) in MemoQ 2014 R2. 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 helping me. Thus, whenever I can, I export projects from Across and translate in Trados Studio or memoQ.  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 locked content for Oasis.Xliff 12.x.” error message in Studio. 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 what to do if this happens. 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 computers when you work at home or on the go. This article will help you working on online Across projects effectively using several computers. 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 nor export it and re-import into a new one. There might be a hope… 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 laptop screen. When working on the laptop, the ribbon may take too much of valuable space. Here is what to do to toggle the ribbon on and off in SDL Trados Studio 2014. 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 Word and Unicode text editor. 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 after long time of smooth operation. I ended up re-installing the software, which was quite useless, as there is an easy and quick fix available that worked for me. Here is what might help you. 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 was machine translated, some clients may get a bad impression seeing this in their translated files. Use the following procedure to get rid of the AT origin in translated file. 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 face a need to export a Trados Studio project into Word for translation? This tutorial will show you how to proceed. 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 to convert Transit project into SDL Trados 2007 or SDL Trados Studio. Here is how to proceed to create a new translation memory containing translations from Transit reference material. 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 information. I was contacted the other day by one of my readers with a problem connected with importing TMX file created using this post into Transit NXT. Here is what to do when you experience the same problem. 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. Continue reading →