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| Forum | Topic | Title | Text | Poster | Time |
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| Software applications | Issues with OneDrive deleting or emptying my TM | Creative solution!! | Thank you!! That sounds like a really smart plan!! I would definitely do this! And maybe make manual back ups of the TMs now and then. | Elena Carbonell | Sep 29, 2020 |
| Software applications | Issues with OneDrive deleting or emptying my TM | Thank you for the suggestion | Thank you, Molly. That´s the first thing I did. The files are in the new location (Onedrive/My Documents)...but now it deletes the content of the TM. The TM´s are there but instead of 10 | Elena Carbonell | Sep 29, 2020 |
| Software applications | Issues with OneDrive deleting or emptying my TM | My CAT tool | memoQ, mainly. | Elena Carbonell | Sep 26, 2020 |
| Software applications | Issues with OneDrive deleting or emptying my TM | Hello there!!
Maybe there is someone out there who had the same issue or know how to help me with this. I had a back up system I was using for years, but recently they changed the way | Elena Carbonell | Sep 21, 2020 | |
| MemoQ support | Importing Excel files with "select ranges in Excel" fails | Same problem | In my case it happened when I migrated to a new computer. Everything else works except that. It's very frustrating because it's one of the best features in memoQ and I use it almost every< | Elena Carbonell | Jun 6, 2018 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you intentionally apply translation theories when you are working? | Hear, hear | I have to agree with the previous comment.
I apply every single day ideas, concepts, techniques, theories I have learnt during my studies. Linguistics, translation theory, Semantics. | Elena Carbonell | Apr 17, 2015 |
| Wordfast support | Glossary box jumps out with Wordfast - help needed | Same here | Hey there,
I have been reading your solution to the problem which is : CTRL + ALT + G + G I have tried all different combinations of above mentioned keys with no luck, the glossary | Elena Carbonell | Mar 6, 2014 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you studied an ancient language? | Yes, Latin and Greek | I did three years of Latin and two years of Greek. I remembered I hated Latin because my teachers were beyond boring, Greek on the other hand I loved. It was my favourite subject, the te | Elena Carbonell | Nov 2, 2011 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you set limits for your children/family in regard to interruptions while you’re working? | Bring on the music! | My family and some friends don't respect my time but at least they respect the little space I have in the living room, a pathetich one meter table with a computer which is holy, the space | Elena Carbonell | Mar 14, 2011 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you listen to music while working? | Yes, most of the times | I like to listen to barroque music when I feel I loose my concentration. It wakes me up. Otherwise I listen to my CDs on the computer: the Wainwrights (Loudon, Rufus and Martha), the Divi | Elena Carbonell | Jan 11, 2011 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Does translation memory software jeopardize creativity? | No, no way | For that matter we could say that a computer hinders our creativity, that we actually should be translating on paper like the good old days. It's like a graphic artist, they can paint on c | Elena Carbonell | Mar 3, 2010 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: How do you keep fit? | Other, a few of the above and somem extra | Pilates, twice a week, swimming once every two weeks, flamenco dancing once a week and...Wii Fit Plus, four times a week for half an hour. And since we don't have a car and three kids, I b | Elena Carbonell | Feb 28, 2010 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you offer DTP services? | www.proz.com/polls/1578 comments | Hi Natalia:
I love DTP and I work also proffessionally as a (web) (print) designer. I would recommend Adobe InDesign. Quark is also good but since InDesign is from Adobe, it works seam | Elena Carbonell | Feb 9, 2010 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Which of these fictional languages would you like to be able to speak? | www.proz.com/polls/2302 comments | Nice and fun poll, I am surprised though that Klingon didn't get more votes. Are there no Trekkies around? | Elena Carbonell | Feb 4, 2010 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Would you read a "Translation for Dummies" book if it existed? | Why not? | In fact I will buy like 20 copies and give them away as presents to a few friends and acquaintances who still think that what I do is either: - write a novel - write the unreadable | Elena Carbonell | Jan 14, 2010 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do your friends and family understand that you must always be available? | I totally understand the question | I think I get it.
It's more like people thinking: "eh, you are not working in a project right now, maybe you can buy the presents for that birthday we have next weekend or you can go to | Elena Carbonell | Oct 7, 2009 |
| Spanish | Existe un programa para extraer contenido de sitio Web? | Se llama Webzip | Es un programa para bajar páginas web....eso sí te advierto que no siempre funciona bien, sobre todo si el cliente utiliza marcos. Te guarda la estructura, con carpetas, ilustraciones y | Elena Carbonell | Sep 30, 2009 |
| Speech recognition | DNS 10: Who localised it into Spanish? | Good post!! | I have the program but I haven't used it that much but what you are saying is outrageous. It gets on my nerves when I see a bad translation, but a bad translation of a program probably u | Elena Carbonell | Sep 3, 2009 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Translation: a lonely world? | Not at all! | I never feel alone with my thoughts!
Although I have had pleasant experiences working with colleagues on other jobs, I don't miss it. There is always someone or some people that ruin(s) | Elena Carbonell | Jun 25, 2009 |
| Subtitling | [Subtitling Rates] subtitling all-inclusive rates | I hope this one helps | Hi there!
I have never had to do the transcription because I was provided with the original translation and the spotting was already done, but I will tell you how much they pay me for | Elena Carbonell | Mar 16, 2009 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: What is your preferred tool for creating invoices? | In Design | I also have AnyMaxi which I mainly use to make the word count on big projects with multiple files but I haven't found a program that can make good looking invoices the way I want them. I h | Elena Carbonell | Mar 3, 2009 |
| Powwows | Powwow: Leiden - Netherlands | Sorry! | Bij deze wil ik mijn excuses aan iedereen aanbieden. Ik moest een trein om tien voor vijf nemen (naar Nieuw Vennep) die ik trouwens gemist heb en moest een andere combinatie nemen die | Elena Carbonell | Feb 9, 2009 |
| Powwows | Powwow: Leiden - Netherlands | Well stadswandeling, geen etentje | Hoi Ingeborg,
Ik kan helaas niet bij het eten zijn (verjaardagsfeestverplichtingen!) maar ik doe wel mee met de stadswandeling. Tot zaterdag! | Elena Carbonell | Feb 3, 2009 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: How often do you use a CAT tool if it has not been specifically required by the client? | Me too! | I always use them (Wordfast for any Word or Excel document and Trados for the rest). I am so used with it that even when I get PDF I always convert them to Word so I can work with my CAT t | Elena Carbonell | Jan 21, 2009 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: You are a... | Other...??? | Well, I knew that there are more women in the language field. If you add all totals you get 60% female v. 40% male. What about that percentage of other/NA? Anyone to comment on their an | Elena Carbonell | Oct 24, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: If you are not satisfied with your income, it's because of: | Satisfied! | I am satisfied with what I earn, because I am getting well paid for a job I enjoy doing (most of the times). Of course I would love to earn more but that's just out of greed. I also ex | Elena Carbonell | Oct 23, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Project History (plus feedback!) features updated. Members are invited to use it! | Maximum amount of projects | This morning I decided to update my Project History which I haven't touched in almost a year. When I started I had 23 projects. After entering five projects I still have 23 projects. Is t | Elena Carbonell | Oct 13, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Is your business being negatively affected by the current financial crisis? | I was waiting for this poll to come | I was waiting for someone to submit the poll. Luckily I have to say that at the moment I have more than enough although I have to admit that a few weeks back there was a moment when I p | Elena Carbonell | Oct 3, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: What is your favourite browser? | I am not a geek, Firefox is many people's favourite browser | I just like the simpleness of it and of course like many of you I was also sold with the tab thing! I also think that most designers have Firefox on mind when they do their Websites. In< | Elena Carbonell | Sep 24, 2008 |
| Trados support | Error 80005: Connection with server application error: unable to get instance of excel | Hi there!
I hope someone can help me on this one. It seems that I cannot work with Trados and Excel. I had been working on a while, even with Excel 2007 and all of a sudden i get this e | Elena Carbonell | Sep 18, 2008 | |
| Powwows | Powwow: Amsterdam - Netherlands | Pictures uploaded | I have just uploaded the pictures from my camera, I am afraid I didn't do as much as I wanted to. Thank you Henk for this powwow in my city, I didn't have to catch a train! Thank you all | Elena Carbonell | Sep 12, 2008 |
| Alchemy support | Catalyst 7.0 under Windows Vista, error messages: failed to create edit toolbar/HTML editor | There is no solution for the problem yet | Before I contacted the support line I have already tried everything in the FAQ. I tried everything again (regsvr32, turning off the UCA, deinstalling, installing...you name it) that the | Elena Carbonell | Sep 5, 2008 |
| Wordfast support | Wrong matches in Wordfast | Problem "solved"in the yahoo thread | As Oliver proposed I posted the problem at the other forum. Some other people had the same problem I had and in previous versions it has to do with how the program is done. It seems the< | Elena Carbonell | Sep 2, 2008 |
| Wordfast support | Wrong matches in Wordfast | Thank you for your answer but... | Thank you for your answer but I have been working with Wordfast for years now and this is something that recently happened. I have like 6 different glossaries divided in topics technical | Elena Carbonell | Aug 28, 2008 |
| Wordfast support | Wrong matches in Wordfast | My problem is quite strange, I think.
I have been working many years with Wordfast (like 5 or so) and recently I am experiencing problems because I get TM matches which are completely wro | Elena Carbonell | Aug 27, 2008 | |
| Trados support | Problems with TagEditor | Same problem! | I was browsing in the forums to see if there was a solution. I am translating the webpage in Dreamweaver which is tiring and time consuming since I cannot do it in Trados because I only ge | Elena Carbonell | Aug 25, 2008 |
| Alchemy support | Catalyst 7.0 under Windows Vista, error messages: failed to create edit toolbar/HTML editor | Thank you but... | You knew there was a but somewhere...why is there always a but?? I already tried it...in Spanish was ejecutar (run) so I got the run window. The thing is that when I do it and althoug | Elena Carbonell | Aug 12, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you have a website for your freelance business? | Learning Dreamweaver and HTML | I just bought the domain name, the hosting, learn Dreamweaver and HTML and did mine. I liked the process of learning, I just love computer programs (I am here on the verge of "nerdiness" | Elena Carbonell | Aug 11, 2008 |
| Alchemy support | Catalyst 7.0 under Windows Vista, error messages: failed to create edit toolbar/HTML editor | Hi there,
I hope someone can help me out on this one. I already looked in the database available online for Catalyst, and there is a troubleshooting for a problem that is similar to | Elena Carbonell | Aug 11, 2008 | |
| Powwows | Powwow: Sevilla - Spain | los trenes de Cádiz | Hay un tren que sale a las 11:05 y llega a las 12:48, osea que llegamos a tiempo. Para los que quieren quedar en el tren podemos coger ese de las 11:05. Yo lo que hice en otro powwow es | Elena Carbonell | Jun 4, 2008 |
| Powwows | Powwow: Sevilla - Spain | Wok!! | Hola a todos:
Un sitio más o menos cerca de San Bernardo y económico y sano, es un restaurante que está cerca del edificio Viapol, no me acuerdo bien del nombre pero es tipo buffet ori | Elena Carbonell | May 26, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you do volunteer work? | I do both! | [quote]Sabine Winter wrote:
Maybe we could have the poll re-run with an option to vote "yes - translation AND other" to get a more precise result. [/quote] I totally agree and it se | Elena Carbonell | May 25, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you ever lost a client by saying no to job offers too often? | I have refused a couple of jobs and had no problem at all! | They were also regular clients. My main reasons to refuse a job were: 1. luck of time; I was already busy with another project 2. insecure. When it comes to legal documents I feel pretty | Elena Carbonell | May 20, 2008 |
| Powwows | Powwow: Sevilla - Spain | ¿Tenemos fecha y tema? | Yo tampoco tengo muy claro lo de la fecha. También sería interesante poner un tema, no sé, alguna discusión sobre algo. En los powwows que he ido hacíamos alguna actividad o una discu | Elena Carbonell | Apr 23, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Have you worked as an In-house Translator? | Other options | No, I wanted to in the past and now I wouldn´t. When I started as a translator I wanted to work as an In-house translator and I was a little bit jeaulous of my colleagues that were. | Elena Carbonell | Mar 31, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: What computer type do you use for work? | Laughing my head off!! | [quote]Nicole Schnell wrote:
[quote]lexical wrote: I was getting along just fine chiselling in cuneiform script on a pillar of granite till this poll came along and unsettled me. Whe | Elena Carbonell | Feb 28, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: On average, how much do you invest every year in new software? | It actually depends | These last two years I have spent quite a lot of money on software but I don´t plan to buy anything else in the near (far) future. Once you have your CAT tools (a few in my case), your | Elena Carbonell | Feb 26, 2008 |
| Trados support | Tag editor or Synergy shuts down in Windows Vista (32 bit) | Problem solved | In case anyone is experiencing the same problems...I have downloaded and installed the new update and now everything is working fine (fingers crossed!). | Elena Carbonell | Feb 22, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Do you have a Blackberry? | I don´t have one | But it´s just a matter of time. You can´t resist their allure and since 99% of my work comes from my e-mail I have become really dependant of being at home or somewhere with an internet | Elena Carbonell | Feb 18, 2008 |
| Trados support | Tag editor or Synergy shuts down in Windows Vista (32 bit) | SDL Trados 2007 | It´s SDL Trados 2007. Re-reading my explanation I noticed there is a mistake on the third paragraph. It´s not the system that shuts down but the program. Thanks, beforehand. | Elena Carbonell | Feb 17, 2008 |
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