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  • Mayumi Sasao

    I changed the extention of an XLZ file into zip and I unzipped the file. Then I imported xlf file into a CAT tool. I found this solution at proz.com and I found it extremely simple!

    29 May, 2014 at 14.49 Reply
    • Pieter Beens

      Thank you Mayumi!
      I also tried this but returning to the original file type was a crime.
      I think the option described in this post will satisfy more clients.

      30 May, 2014 at 17.24 Reply
  • tika

    hi Peter, thanks a lot, what a nice article…helped me much. But I am unable to open XLZ file using SDL Studio 2011, dunno why, anyway thanks for sharing this 🙂

    14 August, 2014 at 06.54 Reply
    • Pieter Beens

      Hi Tika,
      Thank you so much for your reply.
      Although Studio 2011 should be able to open the files I highly discourage you to do it.
      Even when you can import the file and translate it as a whole problems can occur while exporting it. I have experience empty segments and other problems. Afterwards I had still to copy paste all segments into Workbench.
      Try MemoQ if you have it and can’t get Workbench running…

      14 August, 2014 at 07.11 Reply
  • Maria

    I would like to thank you a lot for the information you posted concerning the tool to remove the .net versions. I tried it and it worked. It was very frustrating when I upgraded to Windows version 8.1 and I could not work with Idiom anymore.

    15 August, 2014 at 11.44 Reply
  • eunice

    Hi Pieter, I unzipped the file and ran the code but nothing happened.
    Is it supposed to be like this? Because I don’t know when is it ready for me to install the workbench.

    17 September, 2014 at 14.30 Reply
    • Pieter Beens

      Hi Eunice,

      It’s a time ago I ran the file, but as far as I can remember indeed there didn’t happen that much.
      You might consider to right-click and run it as an administrator.
      Install Idiom afterwards, it should work fine then.

      Looking forward to the outcome 🙂

      Pieter

      17 September, 2014 at 14.39 Reply
  • eunice

    Except running the file I used the programme compatibility troubleshoot and installed the workbench under the Windows XP mode. and it WORKED! Thank you so much!

    17 September, 2014 at 15.23 Reply
  • Mustaqim

    I cannot apply the instruction above on win 8.1. I simply double-click the exe and select option to clean up the Framework 1.1 and then install the Idiom workbench but failed.

    30 December, 2014 at 12.37 Reply
    • Pieter Beens

      Try this:
      – Right-click on the executable (exe)
      – Select “Run as administrator”
      Please note that you will not see any setup screens or whatsoever. Rebooting your PC before installing Workbench can help too..

      Hope this solves the problem.

      31 December, 2014 at 10.55 Reply
  • Michel

    Just so you know, you are still helping people with this. Thank you.

    4 October, 2015 at 00.38 Reply
  • Claudia Ricci

    Is Idiom available also for Mac?

    18 December, 2017 at 14.36 Reply
    • Pieter Beens

      Hi Claudia, I don’t expect so but maybe you can run it in a virtualization environment?

      18 December, 2017 at 16.27 Reply
  • NGUYEN HUYEN TUNG

    Thank you so much for you excellent workaround, Pieter Beens!

    26 September, 2018 at 07.29 Reply
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