Clean Up Expert

Use Clean Up Expert to create target files and to create or update translation memories to include your latest translations. The Clean Up Expert is used to create Alchemy Desktop TMs.

The Alchemy desktop TM is an advanced multilingual translation memory that can be used to centralise all your Project TTKs. Use it at the end of a project to consolidate all of your Project TTKs into a single, highly portable, desktop TM.

	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.
	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.

Saving to GlobalLink TXML Files

Use the File Export command to create GlobalLink compatible TXML files. This is helpful if you want to create a TM that can be used by GlobalLink or Wordfast translation memory or workflow products.

Saving TRADOS Compatible Files

Use the File Export command to create TRADOS compatible TTX files. This is helpful if your client wishes to receive TRADOS TTX files back at the end of a translation project. TRADOStag (TTX) is an XML-based file format for representing both tagged text output and bilingual data.

TTX replaces BIF as the file format for bilingual documents.