This topic describes how to upgrade your SDLX 2007 and SDL Trados 2007 translation memories to SDL Trados Studio 2009 format *.sdltm using the Upgrade Translation Memories wizard in SDL Trados Studio. Using this method you can accept all of the default upgrade settings without having to specify any settings.
Perform maintenance on your translation memories in SDL Trados Translator's Workbench or in SDL Maintain in SDLX 2007 to ensure you are upgrading quality data.
Ensure that the correct software is installed on the computer. Click here for more information.
Decide if you want to upgrade your segmentation rules.
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For more detailed information on upgrading translation memories and what segmentation rules are upgraded, see the SDL Trados Studio 2009 Migration Guide . To access this guide go to Start > All Programs > SDL > SDL Trados Studio 2009 > Documentation > SDL Trados Studio 2009 Migration Guide. |
To upgrade your translation memories without specify settings:
Click the Translation Memories button in the navigation pane to display the Translation Memories view.
Select File > Open > Open Translation Memory from the menu bar. The Open File-based Translation Memory dialog box is displayed.
Select the type of translation memory or file that you want to upgrade from the Files of type drop-down list and click Open. The Upgrade Translation Memories page of the Upgrade Translation Memories wizard is displayed.
Translation Memory Exchange Documents (*.tmx)
SDLX 2007 File-based Translation Memories (*.mdb)
SDL Trados 2007 File-based Translation Memories (*.tmw)
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If you want to upgrade a server-based Translation Memory, select Tools > Upgrade Translation Memories from the menu bar to launch the Upgrade Translation Memories wizard. Click here for more information. |
On the Upgrade Translation Memories page, select one of the following:
If you want to upgrade the translation memory without specifying any settings, click Quick Upgrade. The upgrade process starts and the Upgrading Translation Memories page is displayed. Go to step 9.
If you want to specify the settings for upgrading the translation memory, click Custom Upgrade. The Upgrade Translation Memories wizard is displayed.
If you clicked Custom Upgrade, the Output Translation Memories page is displayed. You can select how the translation memories are created by selecting one of the following:
Option |
Description |
Create output translation memory for each input translation memory |
When this option is selected, an SDL Trados Studio translation memory is created for each translation memory and *.tmx file that was added on the Input Translation Memories page. |
Create output translation memory for each language pair |
When this option is selected, an SDL Trados Studio translation memory is created for each language pair that exists in the translation memories and *.tmx files that were added on the Input Translation Memories page. |
Custom |
When this option is selected, additional options are displayed where you can customize how the SDL Trados Studio translation memories are created: |
Click Next. The Output Translation Memories Settings page is displayed.
Complete the Output Translation Memories Settings page. Select the translation memory for which you want to define settings from the Output Translation Memories box and specify your settings for the following tabs:
Click the Location tab. Specify if you want the upgraded translation memory to be file-based or server-based.
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If you selected multiple language pairs to be in the new upgraded translation memory, then you can only create a server-based translation memory. Server-based translation memories are multilingual and can contain multiple language pairs while file-based translation memories are only bilingual. |
Click the Settings tab. If you are upgrading more than one translation memory and they have different language variants, select which language variant you want the new upgraded translation memory to have. You can also enter a description and modify your recognition settings.
Click the Language Pairs tab - The list of language pairs in the selected translation memory is displayed. If It Is a server-based translation memory, it can contain multiple language pairs.
Click the Compatibility tab. Specify what data associated with the translation unit is removed or retained in your translation memory in order to optimize the leverage from your new upgraded translation memory.
Click the Fields tab. The existing custom fields from the translation memories you are upgrading from are listed here. Delete or modify the custom fields as needed.
Click the Language Resources tab. Your input translation memories are scanned and any segmentation rules are copied. Depending on the type of translation memory or TMX file you are upgrading some or all of the segmentation rules can be upgraded. You can also choose to select the default language resources in SDL Trados Studio instead of upgrading your segmentation rules.
Click Finish when you are ready to start the upgrade process. The Upgrading Translation Memories page is displayed.
You can now do the following:
Click the Details link to display the Import Results dialog box which contains statistics about what translation units were imported.
Click the Open link to open the translation memory in the Translation Memories view to view the imported data.
Overview: Upgrading your Translation Memories
How to Upgrade Translation Memories without Specifying Settings