Glossary links missing

Question

Can anyone tell me what a TermRenderingChanges.xml file is and why in two of my projects the TermRendering.xml file has disappeared and has been replaced with a TermsRenderingChanges.xml?

This is the second time a particular project has lost the links to their glossary. The first time was in Paratext 7.6 I spent countless hours working through the the TermsRenderingChanges.xml to recreate the TermRenderings.xml.

Now it is gone again in the Paratext 8 project. I don’t have time to try again. Fortunately I have a copy of the previous file in Paratext 7.6 but I am not sure if I can copy it to My Paratext 8 projects. Of course I would have to find all the changes since then…

Can anyone shed some light on what is going on?

Thanks
anon703820

Answer 1

anon703820:

Can anyone tell me what a TermRenderingChanges.xml file is and why in two of my projects the TermRendering.xml file has disappeared and has been replaced with a TermsRenderingChanges.xml?

The TermsRenderingChanges.xml file records the changes made to the renderings of biblical terms. Kinda like a Project History for the renderings. It should never replace the BiblicalTerms{Projectname}.xml file in PT7.

anon703820:

Now it is gone again in the Paratext 8 project.

The TermRendering.xml file should only exist in Paratext 8. The BiblicalTerms{ProjectName}.xml file and the TermRenderingChanges.xml file from PT7 get merged to form the TermRenderings.xml file in PT8.

If weird things are happening to files like that, it’s usually a sign that something is going wrong with the merging of the files during a S/R (e.g. someone is using two machines without doing S/Rs properly). Can you give us the name of the project so we can check it out?

Comments

Hi anon291708

Thanks for the quick response.

The Paratext 7.6 project is kia49a and the date on the TermRenderingChange.xml is Oct-17.

The Paratext 8.0 project is kia49. I had a backup file on the 6-Dec-2017. When I did a send/receive yesterday I ended up with a “blank” TermRenderings.xml file. And no changes file this time.

I checked my folders and of course you are correct the Paratext 7 projects have TermRenderingsChanges.xml files whereas the Paratext 8 projects have TermRenderings.xml files. I must have used the Paratext 7 TermRenderingsChanges file to recreate the Paratext 8 TermRenderings.xml file.

We are trying to put together an Adroid app for the NT dedication this weekend and a number of the glossary entries have both plural and singular forms which are in the project list but since it doesn’t have links to the glossary it only picks up the plural form from the citation form. There are 12 plurals so I am thinking of redoing them manually.

I also recall that the team members have had problems with their Logos.exe file being attacked by a virus (the size becomes 0 kb). So I wonder if viruses could be a factor also.

Thanks

anon703820

Answer 2

I looked at the kia49 project. It looks like the TermRenderings.xml file was deleted on Jan 30 on Mbirip_Gedeon’s machine. How or why, I can’t say (it was not by a merge during a S/R). If the file was found to be corrupt by Paratext, then there should be a file called TermRenderings.xml.corrupt on their machine. Otherwise, it likely wasn’t Paratext that deleted it.

For future reference, whenever you notice this kind of thing, please use Help > Report a problem and we can usually restore the file from the project’s history fairly easily. Let me know, and I can do the same thing here and restore the file to how it was on Jan 30.

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Thanks anon291708, I tried to report a problem to get you to restore the file but our Internet dropped out so I don’t know if it went.

anon703820

Answer 3

It did not go through. Do you want me to restore the TermRenderings.xml file in the kia49 project?

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Yes please.