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Exporting a TM in Transit for import into Trados
Thread poster: Sarah Downing
Sarah Downing
Sarah Downing  Identity Verified
Local time: 11:04
German to English
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Feb 5, 2010

Hello fellow translators and Transit users,

Every so often my colleague goes on holiday and I "babysit" her customers. She does her translations in Transit, but I work with Trados. Is there any function in Transit that is similar to the Trados TM export into a .txt file, etc. that enables her to export her Translation Memory, so that I can somehow import it into Trados? I know nothing about Transit, so please excuse my ignorance.

Any help would be much appreciated. Than... See more
Hello fellow translators and Transit users,

Every so often my colleague goes on holiday and I "babysit" her customers. She does her translations in Transit, but I work with Trados. Is there any function in Transit that is similar to the Trados TM export into a .txt file, etc. that enables her to export her Translation Memory, so that I can somehow import it into Trados? I know nothing about Transit, so please excuse my ignorance.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you very much!

Sarah Downing ▲ Collapse
 
Bob Kerns (X)
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Germany
Local time: 17:04
German to English
It depends on what variant of Transit your colleague uses Feb 5, 2010

Hi Sarah,

If, like me, your colleague uses the free version of Transit (Satellite PE), then she can't export to a .txt file, but this type of export may well be available in one of the "full" versions of Transit.

If your colleague uses Transit Satellite PE, she delivers her finished projects in .TXF files, and as far as I know these can be imported into Trados. I no longer use Trados so I can't be sure on that.

It might be worth asking your question in the ... See more
Hi Sarah,

If, like me, your colleague uses the free version of Transit (Satellite PE), then she can't export to a .txt file, but this type of export may well be available in one of the "full" versions of Transit.

If your colleague uses Transit Satellite PE, she delivers her finished projects in .TXF files, and as far as I know these can be imported into Trados. I no longer use Trados so I can't be sure on that.

It might be worth asking your question in the "transit_termstar" group on Yahoo; that's where most of the Transit "experts" seem to be.

HTH
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Antoní­n Otáhal
Antoní­n Otáhal
Local time: 17:04
Member (2005)
English to Czech
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tmx Feb 5, 2010

Generally speaking, "tmx" is the format for using Transit TM in Trados and vice versa.

Antonin
 


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