Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Cannot exit Review mode in Studio 2011
Poster: Anthony Teixeira
Post title: If editing .sdlxliff files directly doesn't scare you...
I just spent hours trying to solve this problem on a huge project. I had more than 7,000 locked segments with Approved status, and I couldn't see myself unlocking and applying the right status to them one by one.
Fortunately, after examining the .sdlxliff files in a text editor, I found a way to do this much faster!
(Before trying this solution, make sure you have a backup of your files!)
1 - Close your project in Trados
2 - Open a text editor that has a "Find in files" feature. I have personally been using Notepad++ ( [url removed] )
3 - If you are using Notepad++, go to Search > Find in Files, select the folder containing your translated .sdlxliff files (Something like My documents\Trados 2011\Your_Project\Target_Language_Code), make sure "Search in all sub-folders" is checked, search for the string conf="ApprovedSignOff" and replace it with conf="Translated". Note that you can also replace conf="Draft" (or anything like conf="value") with conf="Translated" if there are segments you forgot to validate.
4 - Reopen your project in Trados and use the batch Translation Count function to fix file statistics. Now you should be done!
It might not be the most "elegant" way to do it, and I would recommend solving the problem in Trados rather than editing files manually whenever possible, but it worked well for me as a solution of last resort.
Topic: Cannot exit Review mode in Studio 2011
Poster: Anthony Teixeira
Post title: If editing .sdlxliff files directly doesn't scare you...
I just spent hours trying to solve this problem on a huge project. I had more than 7,000 locked segments with Approved status, and I couldn't see myself unlocking and applying the right status to them one by one.
Fortunately, after examining the .sdlxliff files in a text editor, I found a way to do this much faster!
(Before trying this solution, make sure you have a backup of your files!)
1 - Close your project in Trados
2 - Open a text editor that has a "Find in files" feature. I have personally been using Notepad++ ( [url removed] )
3 - If you are using Notepad++, go to Search > Find in Files, select the folder containing your translated .sdlxliff files (Something like My documents\Trados 2011\Your_Project\Target_Language_Code), make sure "Search in all sub-folders" is checked, search for the string conf="ApprovedSignOff" and replace it with conf="Translated". Note that you can also replace conf="Draft" (or anything like conf="value") with conf="Translated" if there are segments you forgot to validate.
4 - Reopen your project in Trados and use the batch Translation Count function to fix file statistics. Now you should be done!
It might not be the most "elegant" way to do it, and I would recommend solving the problem in Trados rather than editing files manually whenever possible, but it worked well for me as a solution of last resort.