Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Tags in WPF excessive
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title: Auxiliary TM files
[quote]Mark Hamlen wrote:
As for the TMs, I see now that they are shared. Bravo. Just wish I understood all of the accessory files that go with the TM (there's a bak, a lock, an xps, an idg). But I don't really need to understand these.[/quote]
You can safely ignore all the auxiliary TM files. WFP and WFC have their own: for instance, a WFP index file has the extension .jtx, while the index file of a WFC TM is .itx, WFP uses a lock file, while WFC uses none etc. All these files can be re-created from scratch if needed. The only ones that matter are those with the extension .txt, that's where the beef is and those are are the ones you should back up as often as possible.
Topic: Tags in WPF excessive
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title: Auxiliary TM files
[quote]Mark Hamlen wrote:
As for the TMs, I see now that they are shared. Bravo. Just wish I understood all of the accessory files that go with the TM (there's a bak, a lock, an xps, an idg). But I don't really need to understand these.[/quote]
You can safely ignore all the auxiliary TM files. WFP and WFC have their own: for instance, a WFP index file has the extension .jtx, while the index file of a WFC TM is .itx, WFP uses a lock file, while WFC uses none etc. All these files can be re-created from scratch if needed. The only ones that matter are those with the extension .txt, that's where the beef is and those are are the ones you should back up as often as possible.