Samuel Murray wrote:
Edward Potter wrote:
Where does WF Pro 5 store all the different files such as TMs and TXLFs?
In WFP3, a "project" was nothing more than a set of settings, but in WFP5 (as in e.g. Trados and OmegaT) a project is a specific set of folders and subfolders. You can choose the location of the project when you create it, but you can't move it from there. The TXLF files are in a subfolder of subfolder of that folder.
WFP5 TMs are, I believe (I suspect), not a single file but rather a set of folders with files and subfolders with files. This makes it very difficult to deal with TMs in WFP5. I'm not sure if you can move these TMs around. Again, you can choose the location of the top-level folder when you create a new TM.
The default location is somewhere, somewhere... perhaps My Documents... but I created a folder on my Desktop called "WFP5 Files" and then use that as the base location for all projects and TMs. When I complete a project, I zip it up.
Thank you for your reply, Samuel.
I've been wracking my brains over this all morning. I have been using WF Pro 3 for years and now I'm supposed to go through a new learning curve. So far, I'm not impressed.
Here's what I needed to do today: receive a TXLF file (one that I created before), check it, then send a TMX and the translated Word file to my client. Somehow I a usable file to send to the client (an SDLXLIFF file). As of right now I STILL have not found the the Word file generated by WF Pro 5. I finally generated a TMX file, somehow located it, then imported it into WF Pro 3.
In WF Pro 3 only about 80% of the target column was populated, i.e. about 20% of the segments were blank. I did a cleanup, then started copying/pasting the missing translated segments out of the WF Pro 5 file into the cleaned Word file.
Yuck. But yuck. Big yuck.
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