Trados 2009 Error: failed to save target content
Thread poster: Diego Achío
Diego Achío
Diego Achío  Identity Verified
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Jan 23, 2012

Today I was working on a project that took me all day long to translate, its an Excel file and I was working on it in SDL Trados 2009.

When I finished the translation I tried to save the target file and I got this error:

Failed to save target content: Input string was not in a correct format.

As I said this is a file part of a project which took me all day long to translate, and I have to deliver the project finished in 2 days so I am practically begging so
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Today I was working on a project that took me all day long to translate, its an Excel file and I was working on it in SDL Trados 2009.

When I finished the translation I tried to save the target file and I got this error:

Failed to save target content: Input string was not in a correct format.

As I said this is a file part of a project which took me all day long to translate, and I have to deliver the project finished in 2 days so I am practically begging someone to help me please.

I attach a Screenshot of the Problem:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k282/achio/SDLTrados2009issue.jpg

Thanks in advance.
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Lisa Grayson
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An all-too-common problem Jan 23, 2012

Diego, a lot of us have run into this same problem with Trados, and there are a number of things you can try. Start by searching the ProZ forum for "failed to save target" (use the quotation marks) and take it from there. I did this several months ago, and found my fellow translators' suggestions much more helpful than anything on the SDL website. Good luck!

 
Stanislav Pokorny
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One basic hint Jan 23, 2012

The "Worksheet name" segments should be no longer than 32 characters. For more complex Excel files containing formulas with cross references between the individual worksheets, it is recommended that these are not translated at all.

 
Diego Achío
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Some cells are blocked in Excel File Jan 23, 2012

Stanislav Pokorny wrote:

The "Worksheet name" segments should be no longer than 32 characters. For more complex Excel files containing formulas with cross references between the individual worksheets, it is recommended that these are not translated at all.


Thank you Stanislav, I tried reducing the name of the file from "CUADROS E INFORAMCION.xlsx" to "CUADROS.xlsx" and tried to save it but it's showing the same error. And the File doesn't contain difficult formulas but some of its cells are blocked for edition (they just have numbers thou and didn't appear in trados)

I asked the client for the original file to see if the blocking is causing the Trados to malfunction. I'll post back once I have tried that.

Thank you Lisa for your suggestion too.


 
Diego Achío
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Mi idea didn't work Jan 23, 2012

Well, the client sent me the original file, with all cells enabled for edition and tried to save it once more, I got the same result, the error. The file does not have any formula, it just has a lot of worksheets.

I'll have to screenshot my trados translation and have my couple do it manually on excel (SDL Trados: The Flintstones edition FTW) while I work on the remaining 12,000words because I don't have the time to deal with this right now.

Anyway if someone comes with
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Well, the client sent me the original file, with all cells enabled for edition and tried to save it once more, I got the same result, the error. The file does not have any formula, it just has a lot of worksheets.

I'll have to screenshot my trados translation and have my couple do it manually on excel (SDL Trados: The Flintstones edition FTW) while I work on the remaining 12,000words because I don't have the time to deal with this right now.

Anyway if someone comes with any idea for a solution, I'd appreciate it!
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Jerzy Czopik
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Germany
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Polish to German
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Not the file name is the culprit Jan 23, 2012

Stanislav referred to the names of worksheets in the Excel file.
Change them back to original and try again to save target.

Did you already tried to copy the content of the file into a completely new file and save this as Excel 2007?


 


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