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Poll: How do you organize your Translation Memories (TMs)?
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Greece
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English to Dutch
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By end client Jul 13, 2009

As others have already pointed out, this is the only way to keep client-specific phrases and terminology apart.

I also have a "container" TM where I have imported all TMs (which reminds me I haven't updated it in a while) that I can use for concordance searches. Sometimes you know you've come across a similar phrase before (e.g. references to technical standards) but you just cannot remember exactly where you used it before.

In my TM I always include the client name and... See more
As others have already pointed out, this is the only way to keep client-specific phrases and terminology apart.

I also have a "container" TM where I have imported all TMs (which reminds me I haven't updated it in a while) that I can use for concordance searches. Sometimes you know you've come across a similar phrase before (e.g. references to technical standards) but you just cannot remember exactly where you used it before.

In my TM I always include the client name and the project as parameters, so that these are visible when I do a concordance search. ▲ Collapse
 
Anthony Baldwin
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United States
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Portuguese to English
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other Jul 30, 2009

My CAT (OmegaT) can use an entire directory full of TMs as reference for a single project, so I just lump all relevant TMs into one directory to be accessed.
I have 3 distinct directories of TMs, separated by language, since I work in several pairs (FR/EN, ES/EN, PT/EN).
My FR/EN directory is the largest.
 
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