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TM import options

TM import options determine how TUs are imported.

You can access the TM import options SDL Trados GroupShare imports TUs as a background task.

When updating server-based TMs with new TUs via import operations, the new TUs will be available for lookup, but the TU count will be updated after 60 minutes.

General Options page

OptionDescription
Import File

Import only *.tmx files.

Language Direction

Choose the language pair for the TUs.

OptionsDescription
Import translation units as plain text

Select this option to remove formatting tags on import. Fields are not affected.

Export invalid translation units

Select this option to write, to a .tmx file, the TUs that are marked not valid. The meaning of not valid depends on other options that you set, for example:

  • The TU is written in an excluded language variant.
  • The TU contains unknown fields.
Recompute Fuzzy Index Statistics

Select this option to remove the 1000 most frequent words from the fuzzy indexes.

Words that occur very frequently TUs are not useful for fuzzy indexes. Typically, these are words like a, the, to.

Recomputing can make a difference in performance for large TMs. If the TM has less than 50,000 TUs, it will not make a noticeable difference.

If target segments differDescription
Add new translation units

Import the new TUs as an addition to the existing ones.

Overwrite existing translation units

Import the new TUs and overwrite the existing TUs in the TM.

Leave existing translation units unchanged

Keep the existing TUs and do not import the new ones.

Keep most recent translation units

Keep the most recently changed TUs. SDL Trados Studio imports a TU whose source segment is identical to that of an existing TU only if the imported TU is newer than the existing one. If the change date of the imported TU is older than the change date of the existing one, Trados Studio does not replace the existing TU.

Advanced Options page

OptionDescription
Unknown fields

These options determine how Trados GroupShare treats TUs with unknown fields.

  • Add to translation memory. The field is made available to all TUs in the TM. This option is not available when you use a field template.
  • Ignore. The TU is imported, but the field is ignored.
  • Skip translation unit. The TU is not imported.
  • Fail translation unit import. The TU is not imported and it is counted as an error.
Only import segments with the following confirmation levelsFilter by segment translation status (confirmation level) which translation units to import into the TM.