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Thread poster: Gretel Schoukens
Gretel Schoukens
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German to Dutch
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Dec 6, 2013

Hello,

I am wondering how you save your translations... Do you save them, or is it sufficient to have them in your TM? If you save them, how long? In which way?
I used to have a folder for each agency, with in it a folder per month, in it for each translation... just because I feel safe to have them, 'in case I would need them', which of course is almost never the case... It takes a lot of place on my computer, so I would like to know how you deal with it!

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Hello,

I am wondering how you save your translations... Do you save them, or is it sufficient to have them in your TM? If you save them, how long? In which way?
I used to have a folder for each agency, with in it a folder per month, in it for each translation... just because I feel safe to have them, 'in case I would need them', which of course is almost never the case... It takes a lot of place on my computer, so I would like to know how you deal with it!

Thank you!

Best regards,
Gretel ▲ Collapse
 
Recep Kurt
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English to Turkish
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External portable hard drive Dec 6, 2013

I use a 1GB portable hard drive structured similarly (client name/month_year_folder/job_folder).
Have the TM and TB in the main client folder for easy access.

[Edited at 2013-12-06 08:45 GMT]

[Edited at 2013-12-06 08:45 GMT]
 
Charlotte Farrell
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German to English
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Dropbox! Dec 6, 2013

I save things I wouldn't want to lose to Dropbox - then they're still there even if something happens to your computer and you can access it from other places.
 
M. Anna Kańduła
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English to Polish
Wuala Dec 6, 2013

I use Wuala for all sorts of backup copies, including old translations that I'm not obliged to delete after completion.
 
ferreirac
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English to Portuguese
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MyPC Backup Dec 6, 2013

I use MyPC Backup to keep it safe in the cloud, besides having it in my PC and in a local external portable hard drive.
 
philgoddard
philgoddard
Америка Құрама Штаттары
German to English
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I only save mine for a couple of months. Dec 6, 2013

There doesn't seem much point keeping them when the clients have copies.
 
elm0505
elm0505
Испания
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French to Spanish
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I would keep everything Jan 12, 2014

Gretel Schoukens wrote:

Hello,

I am wondering how you save your translations... Do you save them, or is it sufficient to have them in your TM? If you save them, how long? In which way?
I used to have a folder for each agency, with in it a folder per month, in it for each translation... just because I feel safe to have them, 'in case I would need them', which of course is almost never the case... It takes a lot of place on my computer, so I would like to know how you deal with it!

Thank you!

Best regards,
Gretel


I save my TM and the source/target texts as well, as we can align them to get a "reverse" TM. I wouldn't risk deleting them, if they take too much space store them in an external hard drive.
 
Maxi Schwarz
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practical reasons Jan 13, 2014

I've had a couple of requests in the past, where an agency or end client will say "Do you remember that translation you did last summer about x? Would you mind digging it out for me?" Or something comes up now that relates to something done a while back. So unless I'm asked to delete the translation, I keep it on file and later archived on disk. I don't keep source texts.
 
John Cutler
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Spanish to English
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Ditto Jan 14, 2014

Maxi Schwarz wrote:

I've had a couple of requests in the past, where an agency or end client will say "Do you remember that translation you did last summer about x? Would you mind digging it out for me?" Or something comes up now that relates to something done a while back. So unless I'm asked to delete the translation, I keep it on file and later archived on disk. I don't keep source texts.


Same here. I mentioned recently in a Quick Poll how clients have asked me for documents a couple of years after they were submitted. Having them saved (in my case on CDs) is a life saver for them.
 


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