Clone local project

You can create a new local project with the same settings as in another project. One way to do this is to clone the existing project.

When you clone a local project, you make a copy of it on your computer, but without the documents. This can be useful when you need to start a new job for an existing client.

Project manager edition only: You can't clone projects in memoQ translator pro.

New project, same place: When you clone a project, the copy is created as another, empty, local project on your computer.

Works only for projects you created: You cannot clone projects created from a project package, or local copies of online projects.

Cloning cuts connections: If you clone a content-connected local project, or a project that is connected to Language Terminal, the cloned project will not have those connections.

Use templates instead: When you clone a project, you use a previous project as a template for the new one. But memoQ also has template resources which allow more detailed and flexible project configuration. We recommend that you set up templates and create new projects from templates instead.

How to get here

  1. On the Dashboard (or in the Manage projects window), above the project list, choose My Computer from the dropdown.

  2. Select the project you need to clone.

  3. In the Project ribbon, click the Clone Clone icon showing two identical documents next to each other. button.

  4. The Clone local project window opens.

Clone local project window showing Name field to fill in, and three check boxes: Use the same translation memories and term bases, Use the same corpora, Use the same light resouces. In the bottom right corner, there are the OK, Cancel, and Help buttons.

What can you do?

  1. Name the new project in the Name box. memoQ copies the original project's name, and adds '- clone' to it. Type a different name if you need to. Make sure that there isn't another project with the same name on your computer.

  2. Choose what memoQ should copy to the new project. Normally, memoQ uses the same translation memories, term bases, LiveDocs corpora, and light resources in the new project. To not use one of them, clear its check box under the Name text box. For example, you can have a project that has the same translation memories, but not the same segmentation rules (segmentation rules are light resources).

When you finish

To create the copy of the selected project: Click OK.

To close the window without copying the selected project: Click Cancel.