When the client revises the source

A translated, confirmed document comes back revised. Reimport File, keeping history, files each row's earlier version in its history and leaves every target empty. Update from Revised Sources then brings the earlier translations back: the ten unchanged rows Confirmed with their formatting, the lightly edited row Pretranslated for checking. A filter shows the two rows left to translate.

1. The client revised the source

   You translated a document and confirmed every row. Now the client sends a revised version. Most of it has not changed, so you want to translate only what has.

   

2. The translation, every row confirmed

   Marta has translated a holiday-rental client's check-out card from Spanish and confirmed all 12 rows.

   

3. Click Sync and Exit, right-click the file and choose Reimport File

   Close the editor with Sync and Exit. In Project Files, right-click the file and choose Reimport File.

   

4. Choose Reimport + keep history

   Reimport + keep history files each row's earlier version, translation included, in the row's history. That is what Update from Revised Sources reads. No history discards the earlier version and its translations.

   

5. Type a revision comment and click OK, then choose the revised file

   Add a comment if you like: it is saved with the new revision. OK, then choose the revised file.

   

6. Click Reuse these settings

   AV shows the settings the file was first imported with. Reuse these settings imports the revised file the same way; Adjust… lets you change them first.

   

7. Read the result in the status bar

   The status bar gives the result: revision 2, 10 anchored (unchanged rows), 3 new (edited, rewritten or added) and 2 orphaned (earlier rows that were replaced). It also reminds you that the translations stay empty until you run Update from Revised Sources.

   

8. Click Log to see it in the notification log

   The message stays in the notification log (Log, at the right of the status bar).

   

9. Open the file: every target is empty

   Open the file. It has the revised text, 13 rows, and every translation is empty, even where the source did not change. Reimport alone does not bring translations back.

   

10. Click an unchanged row and press Ctrl+H for its History

    The earlier translation is not lost. Click an unchanged row and press Ctrl+H: its History holds the earlier revision, source and translation.

    

11. Click Update from Revised Sources

    Click Update from Revised Sources on the editor toolbar. Exact-source matches carry over as 101%: the same sentence in the same place, so the earlier translation is reused as it was.

    

12. Check Source revision, Segment range, Minimum fuzzy match and the statuses

    The defaults suit this case. Source revision: the earlier version. Segment range: blank for the whole file. Minimum fuzzy match: how close an edited row must be to an earlier one. Unchanged rows keep their status; fuzzy matches come back Pretranslated, for you to check. Overwrite stays off.

    

13. Click Preview

    Preview counts what will happen, and changes nothing: 10 exact (101%), 1 fuzzy above the threshold, 2 with no match.

    

14. Click Update

    Click Update. The ten unchanged rows get their translations back, formatting included, still Confirmed. The lightly edited row gets the translation of its closest earlier sentence, as Pretranslated, for you to check. The rewritten row and the new row stay empty: nothing earlier was close enough.

    

15. Click the funnel, then Status & checks…, and choose Empty target

    To see only what is left, click the funnel (Toggle Filter Bar), then Status & checks…. Under Target and TM match, choose Empty target.

    

16. Click Show only these

    Show only these: the grid keeps the two rows to translate. Translate them as you usually do (Guides H and J), then confirm them.

    

17. In short

    Reimport with history, then Update from Revised Sources, then translate only what is new.