Wordfast fault: randomly substituting different translated segments from same document
Thread poster: Samantha Payn
Samantha Payn
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Aug 6, 2020

I use WF Pro 5 and have the up to date version on a PC running Windows 10 also up to date.
Yesterday and today I have noticed that the programme is substituting random different (totally unrelated) segments from the document I am working on in the translated field. I recognise the false segments as being from the same document but they are not even remotely related to the source text of that segment. When I correct them (by selecting the right translation from the TM window at the bottom)
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I use WF Pro 5 and have the up to date version on a PC running Windows 10 also up to date.
Yesterday and today I have noticed that the programme is substituting random different (totally unrelated) segments from the document I am working on in the translated field. I recognise the false segments as being from the same document but they are not even remotely related to the source text of that segment. When I correct them (by selecting the right translation from the TM window at the bottom) they are removed and the (same, as far as I can tell) wrong translation is subbed in again once the segment is out of view.
Anyone else having this ghostly and ghastly problem?
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Samantha Payn
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United Kingdom
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Just me then? Aug 8, 2020

Anyone? Bueller?

 
John Di Rico
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Auto-propagated segments? Aug 10, 2020

Hello, are these auto-propagated segments? You can turn off auto-propagation in the settings. Otherwise, can you share a screenshot?

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John Di Rico
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Off for summer Aug 10, 2020

Bueller is off for the summer. He'll be skipping school again in September.

 
Samantha Payn
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Not autopropagated segments Aug 10, 2020

I don't believe these are autopropagated segments. This is after I've completed the translation and put the correct target text in. When I review the file I find that Wordfast has subsituted text which, while from the same document, is in no way related to the source text segment.
I first noticed this occurring after I clicked "Commit all", but in fact I later found that if I scrolled down from a corrected segment and then back up to it the same wrong text had been subbed in.
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I don't believe these are autopropagated segments. This is after I've completed the translation and put the correct target text in. When I review the file I find that Wordfast has subsituted text which, while from the same document, is in no way related to the source text segment.
I first noticed this occurring after I clicked "Commit all", but in fact I later found that if I scrolled down from a corrected segment and then back up to it the same wrong text had been subbed in. I know this sounds like I'm making it up, but I'm not.
I am sorry I cannot share screenshots as the text is confidential.
(I should add I've been a happy Wordfast user for around 12 years now).


[Edited at 2020-08-10 19:13 GMT]
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Wordfast fault: randomly substituting different translated segments from same document







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