Trados not opening - error window says "file could not be located"
Thread poster: Rebecca Holmes
Rebecca Holmes
Rebecca Holmes
United States
Local time: 18:55
German to English
Jan 31, 2020

Yesterday I was using Trados 2019 and it worked just fine. No problems at all.
I was comparing files with a colleague, however, and ran a MemoQ repair at some point.
Today Trados will not open - I've tried it from all locations. It runs through all the usual opening windows, but they all close and all I get is a Windows error message saying "The requested data file could not be located".
I am wondering if the MemoQ repair thing had anything to do with it, because otherwise I ha
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Yesterday I was using Trados 2019 and it worked just fine. No problems at all.
I was comparing files with a colleague, however, and ran a MemoQ repair at some point.
Today Trados will not open - I've tried it from all locations. It runs through all the usual opening windows, but they all close and all I get is a Windows error message saying "The requested data file could not be located".
I am wondering if the MemoQ repair thing had anything to do with it, because otherwise I have no ideas why this is happening.
I have tried "repairing" Trados 2019 in the Programs section of the Control Panel. That is not working either.
What do I do now? Please help!!!
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TranslateWithMe
TranslateWithMe
Poland
Local time: 23:55
English to Polish
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probably you are right Jan 31, 2020

Hi,

Memoq might have created the problem. I would simply re-translate the file from scratch against the TM you worked on in the original project.

K.


 


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