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I was working on a language translation project in trados on a virtual machine. Half of the work was done and the translated words were exported into a Word docx file. Upon restarting the virtul machine, the project file appears to have been corrupted as trados shows no signs that the project was worked on. When I manually open the sdlproj (trados project) file, trados cannot open the file mentioning the following:

: An error occured whilst trying to determine the file version

I have tried creating a new project and used pre-translate using batch tasks but that did not seem to have imported the previously translated document. I need to figure out how to recover my project so that I can recover the translated document (so I do not have to redo the work) as well as recover the translation memory for trados. The translation memory folder is present inside the original project folder. I would really appreciate any suggestion to further troubleshoot and fix this issue. I have tried their support desk but they do not appear to be available today. Two solutions I observed from their forum suggested:

1. save the project file with a zip extension, extract the contents and then open the sdlxiff file from there

2. recreate the project and use pre-translate.

I need a help with mass search and replace using regex. I have a longer strings where I need to look for any number and particular string - e.g. 321BS and I need to replace just the text string that I was looking for. So I need to look for BS in "gf test test2 321BS test" (the pattern is always the same just the position differs) and change just BS. Can you please help me to find particular regex for this?

Update: I need t keep the number and change just the text string. I will be doing this notepad++. However I need a general funcion for this if possible. I am a rookie in regex. Moreover, is it possible to do it in Trados SDL Studio? Or how am i able to do it in excel file in bulk?

Thank you very much!

I'm trying to solve a problem with an app I've compiled to speed up my work. The idea is to organise my folder structure automatically (copying files from source to target folders), based on the file extension using a WinForm app. The problem is that I've recently started coding with C# and I can't find a way to deal with the nested duplicated files in my folder structure.

Example of the tree structure:

This question may be asked previously but they have no answer. I try to create a pdf file using pdfkit library with Arabic language support. So, first I downloaded a prebuilt version of pdfkit (which is assumed to work in browser) from here.

Then I wrote this code for adding an Arabic font (like in the docs)

I am using the Google Translate neural network (amazing improvement) via the Google Cloud Translation API in SDL Trados to process technical translations.

Of course it needs heavy post-editing, mostly terminology and sometimes style. I would really like if the neural network could learn from this post editing - but there seems to be no way to do feed my edits back. It is possible when using the web interface manually (translate.google.com). The (years unupdated) Google Translator Toolkit allowed to used a shared public TM, but that is now obsolete with the neural network.

Can I somehow feed translations back to Google Cloud Translation API to train it?

Their FAQ states this:

"Does Google use my data for training purposes?

No, Google does not use the content you translate to train and improve our machine translation engine. In order to improve the quality of machine translation, Google needs parallel text - the content along with the human translation of that content."

I have just finished writing my first visual basic "Windows Form Application" that took me several days and that comprises several hundred lines. I learned every concept from scratch, when I encountered it.

Now, all errors the "IntelliSence" can detect has been corrected. The application runs smoothly. But the result is not correct! -- Actually, in one occasion, without changing anything, when I simply inserted a break point and then continued the running, the result appears to be different and appears correct! (i.e., apparently, different results without changing anything)

Without further details (it's several hundred lines, hard to explain...) can anyone tell me what to do next?

Or, more specifically,

question #1, how can I keep track of a certain variable (that variable should have remained unchanged throughout the application)?

And

question #2, what is the shortcut for step-by-step execution in Visual Studio, equivalent to the F8 shortcut in Microsoft Office VBA??

I'm trying to count the total number of new words in a text, and the frequency of each; and then two consecutive words and the frequency of each, taking into consideration only the non-unique words on the basis of the previous count; and then three consecutive words; and then four... until the consecutive words no long repeat. In this process, I discovered that:

Firstly, Microsoft Office "word count" is in fact more accurately a "words-times count" in a sense such as "Our park received (a certain number of) people-times (in stead of just 'people') of visitors per day".

Secondly, some say the count of words in a text, after eliminating repetition, is the count of "unique words" -- that is not accurate, either. In descending order by occurrences / frequencies, the words are "common words", "rare words" and finally "unique words" which means "extremely rare (occurring only once)". What was thought as "unique words" are actually "new words", which is termed correctly in SDL Trados.

Meaning of new: "How many words appeared for the first time in the scope of this text?
Meaning of unique: "How many words appeared only once in the scope of this text?

I have located (or identified) the problem by now. The problem is in "Top Design" (or something). The code is entirely fine (or correct) even with: 612 lines, 57 members/types, a depth of inheritance of 7, and a project maintainability of 87 according to Visual Studio Code Analysis.

On the "top level", I suspect the problem becomes a "real world" problem and no longer about programming. It becomes a question of everyday life or work, generally "How can do this or that?"

Maybe found in between "real world problem" and "programming problem", my "top level" problem at hand, if I may still state it here, is that --

When I found the repetitious "single word" and extended it by one word to look for repeatitious "two consecutive words", I extended only its first occurrence and that was incomplete.

For example, if the text is "my computer my computer my document my document" the repetitious single-words are "my, 4 times", "computer, 2 times" and "document, 2 times". Then, I extend "my" by one word and check if "my computer" is repetitious. It is; the code gives "my computer, 2 times". Thereby I missed "my document, 2 times".