Trados 2019 extremely slow when there are many table cells
Thread poster: Brent Sørensen
Brent Sørensen
Brent Sørensen  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 18:03
Member (2016)
German to English
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Nov 26, 2020

Whenever I work on a larger document with a lot of table cells, Trados drags to a halt, and I usually have to restart this.

My computer is fairly new, and I don’t have this problem with pure text documents.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem. I apologise if this has been asked before.


 
James Plastow
James Plastow  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:03
Member (2020)
Japanese to English
TM? Nov 29, 2020

I have never had a problem with a document with many table cells but are you using a big (like 25MB) translation memory?
I have found that that can slow Trados down a lot when you confirm segments.
The solution is to go to
Options>Editor>Automation
and uncheck
Perform lookup when active segment changes
Enable LookAhead
Update translation memory

You can still look up the TM manually with ctrl shift T and update the TM manually und
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I have never had a problem with a document with many table cells but are you using a big (like 25MB) translation memory?
I have found that that can slow Trados down a lot when you confirm segments.
The solution is to go to
Options>Editor>Automation
and uncheck
Perform lookup when active segment changes
Enable LookAhead
Update translation memory

You can still look up the TM manually with ctrl shift T and update the TM manually under Batch Tasks
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Trados 2019 extremely slow when there are many table cells







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