How to recreate a bilingual SDLXLIFF file in Trados Studio (2024)

To identify whether your bilingual is corrupt:

A.Make sure this is not an issue with your translation:

• Open the problematic SDLXLIFFfile in the Editor view.
• Go to File > Advanced Save > Save Source As
• Enter a name different from the original name of your source file and click Save.

If this succeeds, your bilingual file itself file is not corrupt. Most likely, your translation causes the issue.

B. Make sure this is not an issue with your source file:

• Make a copy of your source file
• Go to File > Translate Single Document
• Open the copy create in step 1 for translation
• Go to File > Save Target As

If saving the target file fails, do not follow the steps from the Resolution section. Instead, you can troubleshoot further by following instructions from KB article:How to reverse TM language direction.

If step A fails, but step B succeeds, the bilingual file got damaged at some stage and needs to be recreated.

To obtain the target file, recreate your bilingual file by following the steps below or watching the video:

1. Open the problematic bilingual (*.sdlxliff) file in theEditorview and selectProject Settings.

2. UnderLanguage Pairs>All Language Pairs>Translation Memory and Automated Translation>Create>New File-based Translation Memory, follow the wizard to create a new translation memory:

   

   
   

3. Go toHome>Batch Tasks>Update Main Translation Memoriesand go through the wizard. The translation memory will be updated with the translations from the bilingual file.
4. Open the initial source file in theEditorview by going toFile>Open>Translate Single Document.
5. Go toHome>Project Settings>Language Pairs>All Language Pairs>Translation Memory and Automated Translation>Add>File-based Translation Memoryand browse for the translation memory updated in step 3.
6. ClickFile>Save.
7. ClickFile>Batch Tasks>Pre-translate Filesand go through the wizard.
8. Reopen the bilingual SDLXLIFF file you just created and save the target file.

You can also create a new project based on your existing one. For further details, please see:How can I recreate a project in Trados Studio based on an existing project?