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Lost my WF translated file
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Spanish-English Translator
Spanish-English Translator
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Englisch > Spanisch
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Dec 5, 2017

I made a mistake and cleaned up again a file that I had already cleaned up and corrected its format manually. Now I only see the file I cleaned up recently, but the other one (the first one) wasoverwritten. Is there any way to recover it? I will be very grateful for any help. AT
 
Andy Watkinson
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Spanien
Local time: 17:44
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Katalanisch > Englisch
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Need info. Dec 6, 2017

Firstly, when asking about a piece of SW with multiple versions it's often essential to know which one you're using (and maybe the Word version also).

Secondly, I don't understand how you can clean up a file that's already been cleaned.

In any case, if you changed the format before re-cleaning it, you could just take the original, put WF on automatic (Shift+Ctrl+Pg Down, IIRC) and re-translate it. I think you should get the original translation back that way.

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Firstly, when asking about a piece of SW with multiple versions it's often essential to know which one you're using (and maybe the Word version also).

Secondly, I don't understand how you can clean up a file that's already been cleaned.

In any case, if you changed the format before re-cleaning it, you could just take the original, put WF on automatic (Shift+Ctrl+Pg Down, IIRC) and re-translate it. I think you should get the original translation back that way.


If you don't get an answer here, the people at WF (Yasmin M., etc...) are excellent at helping out. ▲ Collapse
 
Samuel Murray
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Niederlande
Local time: 17:44
Mitglied (2006)
Englisch > Afrikaans
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I don't think so Dec 6, 2017

Argentine Translator wrote:
I made a mistake and cleaned up again a file that I had already cleaned up and corrected its format manually.


From this statement I gather you're using WFP, not WFC.

Now I only see the file I cleaned up recently, but the other one (the first one) was overwritten. Is there any way to recover it?


I doubt it.

In fact, in none of the CAT tools I use do I get an overwrite warning if I try to re-generate the target file after I've manually edited the target file. For this reason I personally never actually open the generated target file in the location where it gets generated -- instead, I regard the generated file as a temporary file, and I copy it to the main job folder on my Desktop before I open it and make any edits to it.
 


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