Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: How do you remove a whole project from a TM?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Bauduina
[quote]Bauduina wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
1. ...could you delete the entries from the TM using a date/time search?
2. [or:] ... replace all target texts in the project with e.g. "XXX", and then update the TM, and then delete all units that has "XXX" as the target text.[/quote]
Maybe it is possible to do that, but it looks like I would need to do it one segment at a time, and we're talking about a couple of projects that have over 1.000 segments. It would take a lot of time. [/quote]
Well, previous versions of WFC and WFP use a TXT file as the TM (perhaps WFP5 does too). If so, then you can open that file in MS Word, select all text, convert to table using "tab" as a delimiter", and sort by column. If you use my XXX suggestion, sort by the target text column. If you use the date/time suggestion, sort by the date/time column. Remember not to include the top line of the TM in the sort operation. No need to re-sort the file after you've deleted the relevant segments -- simply convert the table back to text with "tab" as the delimiter, and save it as a Unicode TXT file again.
Topic: How do you remove a whole project from a TM?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Bauduina
[quote]Bauduina wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
1. ...could you delete the entries from the TM using a date/time search?
2. [or:] ... replace all target texts in the project with e.g. "XXX", and then update the TM, and then delete all units that has "XXX" as the target text.[/quote]
Maybe it is possible to do that, but it looks like I would need to do it one segment at a time, and we're talking about a couple of projects that have over 1.000 segments. It would take a lot of time. [/quote]
Well, previous versions of WFC and WFP use a TXT file as the TM (perhaps WFP5 does too). If so, then you can open that file in MS Word, select all text, convert to table using "tab" as a delimiter", and sort by column. If you use my XXX suggestion, sort by the target text column. If you use the date/time suggestion, sort by the date/time column. Remember not to include the top line of the TM in the sort operation. No need to re-sort the file after you've deleted the relevant segments -- simply convert the table back to text with "tab" as the delimiter, and save it as a Unicode TXT file again.