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SDLX 2006 Demo: Problems with TM (translation memory)
Thread poster: Mwananchi
Mwananchi
Mwananchi
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Jan 5, 2007

I managed to download a demo version of SDLX 2006 on a rather slow connection and I am having trouble accessing TM.

I imported a dummy file and extracted a translated version using the excellent demo flash tutorial provided. However even after creating a TM from the translated dummy/trial file, I am unable to use it on any other dummy/trial file. What can be wrong?

What happens after the one month trial period ends, will I be able to use the demo in any way?

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I managed to download a demo version of SDLX 2006 on a rather slow connection and I am having trouble accessing TM.

I imported a dummy file and extracted a translated version using the excellent demo flash tutorial provided. However even after creating a TM from the translated dummy/trial file, I am unable to use it on any other dummy/trial file. What can be wrong?

What happens after the one month trial period ends, will I be able to use the demo in any way?

I have been using Wordfast, which is a light program with few hassles so far. Is SDLX significantly better than Wordfast?

[Edited at 2007-01-05 14:26] ▲ Collapse
 
Claudia Digel
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Correct language pairs? Jan 5, 2007

Hi 'Mwananchi'

However even after creating a TM from the translated dummy/trial file, I am unable to use it on any other dummy/trial file. What can be wrong?


What exactly is the problem? Is an error message displayed or doesn't anything happen at all? - The only thing that I can think of without any further information is that you might be using different language pairs for the TM and the ITD file that you are trying to translate. The TM needs to use exactly the same languages (source and target) as the file that you want to translate.

What happens after the one month trial period ends, will I be able to use the demo in any way?


During the one month trial period you have a fully functional version of SDLX. After this period it will switch to demo mode. In demo mode you cannot use all functions and only translate files that contain less than 1000 words, AFAIK.

Is SDLX significantly better than Wordfast?


I cannot say much about this because I'm not too familiar with Wordfast. - I would expect that this depends a lot on the file types you work with.

Regards,
Claudia
 
Mwananchi
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It's probably the language pairs Jan 6, 2007

Thanks Claudia,

It tells me that no translation can be found in the two particular languages. You are probably right, I was rather casual in the manner I made the second dummy file. I will meticulously go through it as I did with the first and see what happens.
 
Mwananchi
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Mystery Solved! Jan 6, 2007

It was because of moving from one target segment to another using the mouse instead of pressing the Enter key, so the segments were not being confirmed as translated.

[Edited at 2007-01-06 16:17]
 


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