Adding Multiple Files to Align

After selecting a translation memory (TM) for importing the alignment results, add the folder structures containing the target and source language documents to align.

Adding Multiple Files by Folder

To align multiple files at a time:

Click Add and choose Source Files by Folder on the Documents for Alignment page of the Align Documents wizard.
Browse to the location of the folder that contains the source files for alignment and click Select Folder.
Click Add, choose Target Files by Folder from the drop-down menu and select the folder containing your target files for alignment.
Click Show Subfolders to display all the files and subfolders included in the selected folders.
Optionally, Change the File Type Settings if you want to use custom settings for your documents.

Matching Source and Target Files

When you add source and target files by folder, Studio automatically tries to match each file in the source folder to its corresponding file in the target folder in order to make sure that you are aligning the right files. Studio matches files by looking at the names of the files and at the names of the folders which contain the files. Each source file is checked against all target files to find similarities between the filenames. The more similar the names of the source file and source folder to the names of the target file and target folder, the easier it is to find the correct file pairs.

To make sure that Studio pairs each source document to its correct target document, give your source and target file similar names and place them inside folders with similar names. For example:

Source file: \Desktop\Translated\Archived\Project\MyBook\Chapter1_EN.doc
Target file: \Libraries\Documents\Reviewed\MyBook_Reviewed\Chapter1_RO.doc

Remove Files and Folders

To remove files added by mistake or files matched incorrectly:

To remove source files, select the required file or folder, click Remove and select All Source Files or Specific Source File. When you remove source files, Studio automatically removes the associated target files.
To remove target files, select the required file or folder, click Remove and select All Target Files or Specific Target File. You can also right-click on the required target file and select Remove target file.

NOTE

You can also align a single pair of two individual files in the Documents for Alignment page by choosing Source Files and Target Files from the Add button.

However, Studio offers a separate wizard for Aligning a Single File Pair. After finishing the alignment, this wizard opens the files directly in the Alignment view.