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Duplicates

The Lingotek TMS helps to streamline TM management by preventing the creation of duplicate TM units within the TM Vault. Before a new TM unit is added to a TM Vault, Lingotek first checks to see if the TM unit is matches any of the existing TM units in the destination vault. If there's a match, the vault's settings for how to handle duplicates is used. 

A TM unit is considered to be a "duplicate" of another TM unit if all of the following are true:

• Same TM Vault
• Same source language and locale
• Same target language and locale
• Same source text (i.e. 100% match)
• If there are any format tags, they must be in the same position and of the same type (e.g. opening, closing, placeholder)
  • Note: while it is necessary for the tag position and tag type (e.g. opening, closing, placeholder) to be the same, it is not necessary for the tag elements (e.g. <b>, <i>) to be the same. In other words, "repaired matches" are considered duplicates of one another.

Duplicate Settings

Duplicate TM units are set by default to Update with the saved translation. You can change this so that duplicate TM units are not saved by:

1. Open TM Vaults under Project Resources from the side bar menu.
2. Choose the TM Vault that you want to change settings for. 
3. Open Settings.
4. Under TM Unit Options select Don't Save. 
   
   

Adding/Moving Translation Memories

The following settings manage how duplicate TM units are handled within the same TM Vault:

• When saving a segment translation, options are to:
  • update the TM unit in the 'save to' TM Vault with the new translation (default); or
  • not save it, so as to prevent the creation of a duplicate TM unit within the TM Vault.
• When adding TM units to a TM Vault via file upload, options are to:
  • not import the duplicate TM unit (default); or
  • update the TM unit in the TM Vault with the TM unit from the uploaded file.
• When moving TM units from one TM Vault to another TM Vault, options are to:
  • keep the TM unit in the destination TM Vault (default); or
  • replace the TM unit in the destination TM Vault.

Exceptions

1. A duplicate can be created if a user edits the source text of a TM Unit in the TM Unit search results, and that edit results in the source text being the same as an existing TM Unit within that same Vault.