Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Alignment Problems on Studio 2014
Poster: Alex Bradbury
Post title:"object reference not set to an instance of an object" when aligning
Hi there,
I have Studio 2014 and sometimes get this very general message when aligning. I have read through a few threads and found that it can refer to all sorts of things. In my case, I've only come across it when aligning texts. I'm currently trying to align 5 pdfs and the message is coming up for every single text. I've been able to align some pdfs in the past; and the message has come up with Word docs in the past too - so I don't think the problem is limited to pdfs. After one failed attempt, I retried using the automatically generated Word files that had appeared in the same folders as the pdfs. But that didn't work either (same error message).
I should also point out that i'm not expecting an amazing alignment given that I'm working with pdfs - anything will do really; just at the moment I'm not even getting past first base.
I've tried the solution suggested for previous versions of Trados - i.e. deleting the following files and reloading Trados:
BaseSettings.xml
Plugincache.xml
UserSettings.xml
But it didn't work. There's also another settings file in the same folder as the others entitled simply:
Settings.xml.
Should I perhaps try deleting that as well and then reloading?
Or does anyone know of any other solutions?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer!
Topic: Alignment Problems on Studio 2014
Poster: Alex Bradbury
Post title:"object reference not set to an instance of an object" when aligning
Hi there,
I have Studio 2014 and sometimes get this very general message when aligning. I have read through a few threads and found that it can refer to all sorts of things. In my case, I've only come across it when aligning texts. I'm currently trying to align 5 pdfs and the message is coming up for every single text. I've been able to align some pdfs in the past; and the message has come up with Word docs in the past too - so I don't think the problem is limited to pdfs. After one failed attempt, I retried using the automatically generated Word files that had appeared in the same folders as the pdfs. But that didn't work either (same error message).
I should also point out that i'm not expecting an amazing alignment given that I'm working with pdfs - anything will do really; just at the moment I'm not even getting past first base.
I've tried the solution suggested for previous versions of Trados - i.e. deleting the following files and reloading Trados:
BaseSettings.xml
Plugincache.xml
UserSettings.xml
But it didn't work. There's also another settings file in the same folder as the others entitled simply:
Settings.xml.
Should I perhaps try deleting that as well and then reloading?
Or does anyone know of any other solutions?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer!