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Wordfast Pro message: "Wordfast unable to find appropriate filter"
Thread poster: Marianne Eden (X)
Marianne Eden (X)
Marianne Eden (X)  Identity Verified
Norway
Local time: 01:45
English to Norwegian
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Aug 27, 2018

Hi,

I get this message when I try to save a file in a project.
The other files save without any problem.


Thanks.


Marianne
 
Dylan J Hartmann
Dylan J Hartmann  Identity Verified
Australia
Member (2014)
Thai to English
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MODERATOR
Same problem! Sep 10, 2018

Did you find a work around for this?
 
Victoria Barkoff
Victoria Barkoff  Identity Verified
Local time: 19:45
French to English
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"unable to find appropriate filter" solution Sep 21, 2018

I ran into the same problem today with a recent version of WF Pro (5.4.3). My rather tedious workaround was to save the file as a bilingual table and reformat the translated text, as I needed to finish the job.

Wordfast Support later gave me this explanation: "The "Unable to find appropriate filter" error message is most commonly caused by mismatching tags. Please run Transcheck All and make sure all tags check out (same number of tags in both columns)." I went back to the Wordfast... See more
I ran into the same problem today with a recent version of WF Pro (5.4.3). My rather tedious workaround was to save the file as a bilingual table and reformat the translated text, as I needed to finish the job.

Wordfast Support later gave me this explanation: "The "Unable to find appropriate filter" error message is most commonly caused by mismatching tags. Please run Transcheck All and make sure all tags check out (same number of tags in both columns)." I went back to the Wordfast document and added any missing tags. I was then able to save the translated file. ▲ Collapse
 


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