MemoQ now hijacks other CAT tools' file associations? Tópico cartaz: Samuel Murray
| Samuel Murray Holanda Local time: 03:48 Membro (2006) inglês para africâner + ...
Hello everyone
I rarely work with TXLF files, but after receiving a TXLF job recently and updating my installation of WFP 5 to the latest version, I discovered that TXLF files now had this new icon:

I don't open TXLF files by double-clicking them but by dragging and dropping them, so I never discovered that this icon is actually a MemoQ icon, and that what this means is that MemoQ had hijacked the TXLF file association when I had recently installed it.
I found out about this today when a client sent me a Trados 7 file (i.e. TTX), and it had the same file icon. And lo, when double-click the TTX file, it no longer opens in Trados but in MemoQ.
I would never have chosen an option, when installing MemoQ, that I want MemoQ to open become the default program for my other CAT tools. Oddly, SDLXLIFF files haven't been hijacked (perhaps an oversight by the MemoQ developers?). TXML files remained similarly unaffected.
So, there you have it, folks. First, do no evil.
Samuel
[Edited at 2018-12-24 09:48 GMT] | | |
Samuel Murray wrote:
I would never have chosen an option, when installing MemoQ, that I want MemoQ to open become the default program for my other CAT tools. Oddly, SDLXLIFF files haven't been hijacked (perhaps an oversight by the MemoQ developers?). TXML files remained similarly unaffected.
Perhaps the icon indicates a vortex that sucks in everything?
 | | | Ricki Farn Alemanha Local time: 03:48 inglês para alemão Yes, I have this, too | Dec 25, 2018 |
... and it is one of the very few things in my life that I can definitely not blame on the squirrels. So a vortex it must be! | | | Selcuk Akyuz Turquia Local time: 04:48 inglês para turco + ... tmx files as well | Dec 31, 2018 |
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