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Disaster: Entire target text replaced by source text after unknown key combination. What to do?
Thread poster: Ilka Nahmmacher
Ilka Nahmmacher
Ilka Nahmmacher  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 17:42
German to English
Oct 8, 2023

I was working happily on a large file, almost done, when I accidentally hit an unknown key combination. It changed ALL of the target text to the source text. I closed the file immediately without saving. When I reopened it, the source text was still where the target text should be.

I looked for a backup file because it creates a backup every 10 minutes, but I could not find it. Does anyone know where it should be and back the extension is?

How is this even possible?
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I was working happily on a large file, almost done, when I accidentally hit an unknown key combination. It changed ALL of the target text to the source text. I closed the file immediately without saving. When I reopened it, the source text was still where the target text should be.

I looked for a backup file because it creates a backup every 10 minutes, but I could not find it. Does anyone know where it should be and back the extension is?

How is this even possible?


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N.B. Oddly enough, the project folder contained the English file, which was only missing the last hour of work, so the loss wasn't that great. I don't understand what happened there though.

[Edited at 2023-10-08 20:21 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Strange Oct 8, 2023

I don't understand what happened there though.

[Edited at 2023-10-08 20:21 GMT]


There is a menu item to reset to source but afaik there’s no keyboard shortcut assigned to it.

It's located here:

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And there is a safety check:

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[Edited at 2023-10-09 08:31 GMT]
 
Ilka Nahmmacher
Ilka Nahmmacher  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 17:42
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
Sounds right Oct 10, 2023

Thanks, Hans. I must have hit a secret key code and maybe, by coincidence, there happened to be an Enter in what I was typing quickly -- without looking at the screen -- and so I confirmed the replacement. Thank you, I didn't know about that feature.

Hans Lenting
 


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