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Migrate local Translation Memories to cloud

This section describes how to migrate local TMs to cloud and convert them to cloud TMs to use them in your translation engines. This allows you to share your TMs with your team in cloud projects, for example. You can also merge multiple local TMs into cloud TMs during the conversion wizard. This procedure covers the dedicated migration functionality in Studio. You can also migrate/import data in the browser.

Before you begin

Before you begin, make sure that you are logged in to your cloud account from within Studio.

About this task

To migrate your local TMs to cloud:

Procedure

  1. In the Translation Memories view, click Migrate to Cloud > Migrate Local Translation Memories to Cloud drop-down menu on the ribbon. This displays the conversion wizard.
  2. On the first page of the wizard, first add your desired local TMs to the conversion list. You can either:
    • Click Add File-based TMs to browse your local storage and choose a TM file.
    • Click Add File-based TMs from Folder and select a folder containing multiple TM files. This will add all of them to the conversion list
    • Drag-and-drop your TM files to the list.
    • Remove any of the added termbases by selecting them and clicking Remove Files.
  3. Configure how the wizard will process the TMs you selected for conversion by choosing one of the following options:
    • Create a single cloud translation memory containing all file-based translation memories - merges all the TMs in the conversion list into a single cloud TM.

    • Create Create cloud translation memory for each language pair - creates cloud TMs based on matching language pairs. This means that TMs that have the same language pairs will get merged into a single cloud TM.
    • Create cloud translation memory for each file-based translation memory - creates a cloud TM for each local TM you added to the list.

  4. Click Next to proceed to the next page of the wizard and configure the following properties and settings for your cloud TMs:
    • If you want, you can edit the name of the resulting cloud TMs by clicking on the icon next to their name.
    • In the Location field, select the location in the cloud account where you want to save your cloud TM. If you are logged in with an Administrator account, you can also click New customer to create a new location in your cloud account.
    • Choose a Field Template for each cloud TM. Field templates allow you to work consistently across your TMs and create TMs that share the same fields faster. TM fields hold descriptive data for each Translation Unit (TU) in a TM. You can also select New Field Template to create a new one.
    • Select Language Processing Rules for your cloud TMs. Language processing rules contain information about the following elements in a TM: compounds treated as one word, segmentation rules and placeables. If you don't have one, you can create it by selecting New Language Processing Rule.
  5. Configure your Import Settings by clicking on the icon:
    • Choose a Description and Copyright for your cloud TMs. Note that these fields are optional and they will be populated with the description and copyright of the first listed TM, if available.
    • Check the box under Import if you want to import TUs as plain text.
    • Choose how the wizard should process TUs if the target segments differ.
  6. Click Save then Finish to complete the wizard.