All TUs imported are invalid Thread poster: Astrid Elke Witte
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I have just WinAligned a pair of files and imported them into a newly created TM. However, when I clicked on "Maintenance", in order to look at the TUs, there weren't any!
The statistical information also gives "0" as the number of TUs, although there are supposed to be 115.
After import, it said underneath, "115 TUs imported in X number of seconds", and then, at the end, "115 TUs invalid".
What does this mean, and what can I do about it? I want a TM from t... See more I have just WinAligned a pair of files and imported them into a newly created TM. However, when I clicked on "Maintenance", in order to look at the TUs, there weren't any!
The statistical information also gives "0" as the number of TUs, although there are supposed to be 115.
After import, it said underneath, "115 TUs imported in X number of seconds", and then, at the end, "115 TUs invalid".
What does this mean, and what can I do about it? I want a TM from this WinAlign project!
Astrid ▲ Collapse
| | | | Olaf (X)
Local time: 00:26
English to German
| Did you check the languge codes? | Jan 26, 2007 |
There are many reasons why Trados didn't like the TUs. If the TM file looks OK, maybe the language codes in the TM or Winaligned TM don't match.
Olaf
| | | | Astrid Elke Witte 
Germany
Local time: 00:26
Member (2002)
German to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Where do you look to check the language codes? | Jan 26, 2007 |
Hi Olaf,
What is meant by the "language codes", and where do I look in order to check them?
Astrid
| | | | Uldis Liepkalns
Latvia
Local time: 01:26
Member (2003)
English to Latvian
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| For example check | Jan 26, 2007 |
If there is not EN UK in one and EN US in another- Trados treats those two versions of EN as a different languages- if your TM is EN US and document header (seen when opening it in Notepad) EN UK, e.g, TagEditor surely refuses to work with it...
Uldis
Olaf wrote:
There are many reasons why Trados didn't like the TUs. If the TM file looks OK, maybe the language codes in the TM or Winaligned TM don't match.
Olaf
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Olaf (X)
Local time: 00:26
English to German
| Open a TM in a tex editor and search for TrU | Jan 27, 2007 |
When you align files, WinAlign usually creates TM text file that contains entries like the following (I replaced the angle brackets with with [] because the BB will not display them):
[TrU]
[CrD]19012007, 13:37:26
[CrU]USER
[Seg L=EN-US]This is a sentence.
[Seg L=DE-DE]Das ist ein Satz.
[/TrU]
Anyway, the language code is the text after "Seg L=". It should match the language codes in the TM that you created in Trados. As Uldis already point... See more When you align files, WinAlign usually creates TM text file that contains entries like the following (I replaced the angle brackets with with [] because the BB will not display them):
[TrU]
[CrD]19012007, 13:37:26
[CrU]USER
[Seg L=EN-US]This is a sentence.
[Seg L=DE-DE]Das ist ein Satz.
[/TrU]
Anyway, the language code is the text after "Seg L=". It should match the language codes in the TM that you created in Trados. As Uldis already pointed out, a common mistake is that the TM might be set up for BrE (EN-UK) but the TM import text file might contain the AmE code (EN-US) or vice versa.
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| | | | Astrid Elke Witte
Germany
Local time: 00:26
Member (2002)
German to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Thank you, Olaf and Uldis. I did have the wrong languages. I normally work with the language pair DE-EN. However, I WinAligned two documents, which were French (Luxemburg) and German (Germany) respectively. I did not notice that WinAlign used by default the flag DE for the French document and EN (UK) for the German document. The result of this is what I imported into a new TM marked "FR (Luxemburg)" and "DE (Germany)".
When I tried to leave the WinAligned project as it was, except f... See more Thank you, Olaf and Uldis. I did have the wrong languages. I normally work with the language pair DE-EN. However, I WinAligned two documents, which were French (Luxemburg) and German (Germany) respectively. I did not notice that WinAlign used by default the flag DE for the French document and EN (UK) for the German document. The result of this is what I imported into a new TM marked "FR (Luxemburg)" and "DE (Germany)".
When I tried to leave the WinAligned project as it was, except for changing the languages, the program told me that I had to start the alignment all over again. Anyhow, I did, and when I imported the new version into my TM it worked, and I now have the TM I wanted.
Thanks again.
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| | | | Olaf (X)
Local time: 00:26
English to German
| WinAlign can be tricky | Jan 27, 2007 |
Astrid Elke Johnson wrote:
When I tried to leave the WinAligned project as it was, except for changing the languages, the program told me that I had to start the alignment all over again. Anyhow, I did, and when I imported the new version into my TM it worked, and I now have the TM I wanted.
Astrid
WinAlign is quite picky, if any of the files or the file paths are changed, you usually lose all stored alignments. That's why I usually export each file pair after I aligned it as a backup.
However, in your case you didn't have to redo the alignment. Since the files that WinAlign creates are plain text files, you could have opened the TM text file in Notepad or a better editor and globally replaced all wrong language codes with the correct ones.
Olaf
| | | | Astrid Elke Witte
Germany
Local time: 00:26
Member (2002)
German to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Thanks for the tip | Jan 27, 2007 |
Thanks for the tip, Olaf. I will know next time!
Have a nice weekend!
Astrid
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