Where’s that CENTRAL DIRECTORY again?
I have, as many of my readers will probably know by now, a love-hate relationship with Trados SDL Studio 2009 (and 2011). I love it for what it can do, but I have previously posted about how it can properly drive me up the wall when it decides (completely at random, like a difficult girlfriend with Naomi Campbell-like mood swings), not to work. And I’ve previously poked some fun at SDL for seeing the need to introduce an own file format for error messages.
See, the main issue with SDL Studio is not that it throws up bugs every two weeks, just when you least need it. An even bigger problem is that it stubbornly refuses to explain what’s wrong. (Like my girlfriend when she puts on that face of hers, and when asked what the problem is, comes up with a sweet "nothing”)Sometimes I think we would need a language course to be able to communicate with Trados Studio.
Today, I came across a particularly interesting example. I received a file from a client as text painted into an email. I then created a word file in the client’s directory with the intention of pasting the text into it, but forgot to actually paste it in and left it on my clipboard instead. To which, on creating the project and preparing the file for translation, Studio had the following to say: “Could not find central directory”. Luckily, by that time I had realized my oversight and thus was able to translate what Studio was trying to tell me:
“Could not find central directory” is SDL language for “Your word document is empty”. Hilarious, isn’t it?
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