The Alchemy TM is a multilingual translation memory that can be used to centralise all your Project TTKs, and subsequently used by the Catalyst Experts.

Use it at the end of a project to consolidate all of your Project TTKs into a single, highly portable, Translation Memory.

Files to clean up

Select the files that are to be processed by the Clean Up Expert here. Click on  and use the File Open dialog box to locate and select files. To delete files from the list, highlight them using the mouse and click on

 Extract Files

Select this option to extract files from a project file and create the translated target file.

 TMs to Update

Select the TM that is to be created or updated by the Clean Up Expert.

• Create a new TM: Click on  and use the File Open dialog box to navigate to the folder where you want to create a new TM. Type the name of the new TM and press OK to continue.

• Selecting an existing TM: Click on  and use the File Open dialog box to navigate to the location of an existing TM file, then press OK to continue.

Remove Graphics from Alchemy desktop TMs

Select this option to remove binary objects (such as graphics) from Alchemy desktop TM files. This will reduce the size of the TM and improve lookup and load performance.

Log File

The Log File contains an audit trail of the outcome of each Clean Up operation. You can specify a new filename here or use the one provided. The results of the latest  Clean Up operation is always appended to the end of the log file.

XXXX segments cleaned Up from "filename"

This displays the number of translated segments that have been cleaned up to a TM.

XXXX binary resources cleaned up from "filename"

This displays the number of binary resources that have been cleaned up to a TM.

Skipping clean up of "filename"

This is a warning message that a Project TTK has been skipped during a clean up operation. The most likely causes of this are:-

1. Project TTK contains no translated segments

2. Project TTK could not be found/opened

3. Project TTK contains no new translations to those currently in your TM.

Clean Up Failed: Cannot Compress desktop TM.

This is a warning message that an Alchemy  desktop TM has reached its full capacity. The most likely causes of this are:-

1. Alchemy TM contains too many graphical segments. Select Remove Graphics from Alchemy desktop TMs and repeat the Clean Up.

2. Not enough memory available on desktop to compress file. Use another machine with more memory and repeat Clean Up operation.

Clean Up Failed: TM is full

This is a warning message that an Alchemy  desktop TM has reached its full capacity. The most likely cause of this is that the Alchemy TM contains too many segments. This occurs for extremely large desktop TMs (Segment count of 200,000+ for every  language pair). In this scenario, Clean Up your projects to a new desktop TM or use Alchemy LANGUAGE EXCHANGE, a server-based TM solution.