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Hello everyone,
We just wanted to let you know that the blog will soon be moved to our website here:

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Thanks for the support

Translating a single document with SDL Trados Studio

Nuevas características de SDL Trados Studio 2014

If you are located in Mexico and want to buy SDL Trados at a very special price go here www.babeldgt.com

How to upgrade from SDL Trados Studio 2011 to 2014 once you have purchased your new license

SDL Trados Studio 2011 is here and I have to say that at Babel DGT we love it. So, for all our clients in Mexico who upgraded, we have put together this quick tutorial to help you upgrade.

Step 1: Log into your account on SDL's website (if you don't remember the url just clic here)
You'll see this screen, log in with your registered mail and password. Should you not remember it just click forgotten password

Step 2: Clic on My Licenses link

Step 3: You will see your current license

DON'T forget to deactivate your old license in any computer using it. If you don't remember how to do it click here.

Notice the upgrade link on the right side of your screen, and click there.

Step 4: The system will tell you how many upgrades you can process, click on the Proces Upgrade button.

Step 5: If successful you will be presented with your new license.

Step 6: Every time you need to see you license number please click on My licenses on the left side of your screen. Then you will see your license on the right, you can click on the license for details

Quick update! Here's a video demonstrating the above:

SDL Trados Studio crashes as soon as you open it

Sometimes you might encounter with you Studio crashing as soon as you open it. Well, no problem many a time it is just that the program crashed,  your computer forced it to shutdown or there was a power outage and you did not have the time to close it. Then the xml file containing the list of projects gets corrupted and all you have to do it erase it to force Studio to generate a new one. Here are the instructions:
Go to you documents folder

Clic on your Studio 2011 folder

Locate the projects folder and delete the Projects.xml file

Now, when you open your Studio you won't see any projects, but fear not! They are just not listed as you erased the corrupted list, all you need to do is get into the folder of each project you want back on the list and clic on the project file and double-click the file that looks like a file cabinet (see picture), this will add the project back to your Studio Projects.

SDL Trados Studio does not indicate the differences between the source segment text in the document and the source segment match in the translation memory

We have been getting a lot of mails regarding this, which is just a very small config detail. SDL Trados Studio does not indicate the differences between the source segment text in the document and the source segment match in the translation memory for the fuzzy matches found. Solution is simple

This occurs when your translation memory list contains both file-based translation memories and non-translation memory providers, and a non-translation memory provider is being used before the translation memories.

Saving your computer from total disaster

More often than not I get mails from users telling me about problems with their computers when using SDL Trados Studio and not being able to work. Normally this users contact me and want immediate response to fix the problem because they are in the middle of translating a project (Murphy's law). Although they could go and read SDL's support website (which 95% of the times has the solution) they always try to go the easy way and get an answer for me. Well, I do try to help them as much as I can, but 90% of the time (literally) the problem is not the software per se, but something going wrong in the their system. Most people, not being very skillful  with computers, don't know how to fix a problem beyond a typo in word or post a pic on Facebook. And even when this is not right or wrong it does entail many things. When you provide directions on how to attempt some repairs, normally the users get lost and have no clue of what they are doing. Some users go as a fat as not even knowing that uninstalling is not erasing files but going to windows control panel to properly carry out such task. So there are to ways here, either they learn to properly use a computer and acquire a good level of skills (which most users tend to believe they don't need), or they learn a set of simple but very important rules. Thus, in order to help them all (and perhaps some other more advanced users that might not follow this rules yet) here are some videos to get you started on emergency prevention, instead of reacting.

First, as soon as you get your new computer make sure you, either have a set of restores discs included or that you create them as soon as you get your computer working and start installing more software. Most vendors do not provide restore discs anymore, but DO give you the means to create within your computer. So all you have to do is look for an option like create rescue discs or create restore discs. Normally you will ned from 3 to 6 dvds for that depending on what your computer came with from the factory. So if you have no specific option provided or if you would like to watch some similar scenarios, here are some videos on this regards.

• Make recovery discs for your PC on windows Vista (this applies to some HP computers perhaps even with windows 7) 

• If you want to go further, then you can make a personalized recovery disc set and an image of your hard drive (more advance but thorough option)

Now, once you have a working restore CD from your computer as soon as it is ready and working fresh on factory defaults, you can go ahead and also make a restore point to don't have to wipe the drive and go back to factory settings. Creating a restore point will give you the option that in case something is not working ok, you can go back to that restore point which is your computer working nicely at a certain point in time. So as soon as you have created your restore CD then you can install all your software and as soon as you test it is all working as you want create a restore point. Here's how (it includes the steps to restore the restore point).

So if you follow this rules then maybe you can skip attending to your local training center. In case something is going really wrong with your computer then just go back to the restore point when your computer was finely tuned. HOWEVER! don't forget to constantly make a backup of your system at least every week. Bear in mind that this implies having another hard drive (external preferably). If you live in Mexico there are some suggestions of external hard drives you can buy.

External portable hard drive 500gb Editor's choice click here