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Is there a way of deleting older versions of a file in Trados
Thread poster: Iseult Harrington
Iseult Harrington
Iseult Harrington  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 06:00
Spanish to English
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Dec 26, 2019

Hi everyone,

I want to delete an entire translation (file) from a translation memory as we have made substantial changes to the file and want the new changes to be reflected and the old redundant sentences deleted. I thought I could do this with the alignment feature but when I run the updated file through Trados, the old sentences are still there and the new ones show as 95-99% match; hence, I would have to manually delete the segment and enter the new one, which would take way to... See more
Hi everyone,

I want to delete an entire translation (file) from a translation memory as we have made substantial changes to the file and want the new changes to be reflected and the old redundant sentences deleted. I thought I could do this with the alignment feature but when I run the updated file through Trados, the old sentences are still there and the new ones show as 95-99% match; hence, I would have to manually delete the segment and enter the new one, which would take way too long (it's a very long document with many changes).

Is there any way of deleting the contents of the old translation from the memory entirely?

Kindest regards! Isa ▲ Collapse
 
Stepan Konev
Stepan Konev  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 07:00
English to Russian
Overwrite Dec 26, 2019

If you have your newer file (as edited) in sdlxliff or tmx format, then go to Project Settings => Language Pairs => All Language Pairs => Translation Memories and Automated Translation => highlight your TM and then press Import... => Add Files... => locate the above mentioned sdlxliff or tmx=> Next => Next => check the 'Overwrite existing translation units' radio button => Finish

Note 1: By default, it is 'Add new translation units'. That is why Trados applies a penalty of 1% (for e... See more
If you have your newer file (as edited) in sdlxliff or tmx format, then go to Project Settings => Language Pairs => All Language Pairs => Translation Memories and Automated Translation => highlight your TM and then press Import... => Add Files... => locate the above mentioned sdlxliff or tmx=> Next => Next => check the 'Overwrite existing translation units' radio button => Finish

Note 1: By default, it is 'Add new translation units'. That is why Trados applies a penalty of 1% (for exactly same translations) or 2% (for same translations with different formatting or tags) to keep both translations as close to 100% match as possible. And that is why you see them as 99% or 98% matches.

Note 2: I am not sure if the 'Update' checkbox for the highlighted TM makes any difference for this Import operation, but check it just to be on the safe side.

[Edited at 2019-12-27 10:15 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 


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