Forum: Wordfast support
Topic:"There are one or more missing fields"
Poster: Lianne van de Ven
Post title: Figured it out
I managed to fix my TM file by gradually substituting lines of a TM that worked fine and see how that showed up in Olifant. I got various kinds of errors in the process, for example, for some reason the date field was not acceptable. I discovered that the tabulations between items in a line were not correct (e.g. 4 tabs and 12 periods) and used find/replace to copy these from the correct TM. Basically, there were periods instead of tabs everywhere, and I gradually replaced all of these with tabs, according to the structure of the correct tm. No idea where these errors came from and it was quite a bit of work (about 45 mins for 1700 entries). Once I had all tabs correct, I opened the file in excel without any problem, and was able to substitute dates and anything else before the actual source and target segments with an entry that worked, and then I could open it in Olifant - just beautifully!
Feeling capable and happy again..... :-)
[Edited at 2014-06-27 22:42 GMT]
Topic:"There are one or more missing fields"
Poster: Lianne van de Ven
Post title: Figured it out
I managed to fix my TM file by gradually substituting lines of a TM that worked fine and see how that showed up in Olifant. I got various kinds of errors in the process, for example, for some reason the date field was not acceptable. I discovered that the tabulations between items in a line were not correct (e.g. 4 tabs and 12 periods) and used find/replace to copy these from the correct TM. Basically, there were periods instead of tabs everywhere, and I gradually replaced all of these with tabs, according to the structure of the correct tm. No idea where these errors came from and it was quite a bit of work (about 45 mins for 1700 entries). Once I had all tabs correct, I opened the file in excel without any problem, and was able to substitute dates and anything else before the actual source and target segments with an entry that worked, and then I could open it in Olifant - just beautifully!
Feeling capable and happy again..... :-)
[Edited at 2014-06-27 22:42 GMT]