Poll: Have you ever translated the wrong file? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Once the client sent me the wrong file, but fortunately I was quick enough to realize what was happening: I had translated that same file one week earlier, one swift email and the imbroglio was resolved...
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| Not yet but you never know | Oct 22, 2016 |
I haven't translated the wrong file before, but I have sent the wrong file. To the right person, luckily, but it was a multi-part job and I sent a partly-translated Part C instead of Part A, causing much confusion. Nowadays I actually open the file I'm about to send to make sure it's the right one before I hit the Send button.
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Mario Chavez (X) 
Local time: 17:12
English to Spanish
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| Just like “Have you ever cut your pinky finger while preparing dinner?” | Oct 22, 2016 |
I sense biological age regression in the author of this poll question.
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Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 06:12
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
In 30+ years of translation
I always translate what the customer asks me to - what else am I supposed to do? (obvious rhetorical question)
Now, if they send me the wrong file, then that's the client's problem not mine. 
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Seham Ebied
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 00:12
English to Arabic
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I was about to deliver the project when I realized that I translated a mock-up instead of the original file.
There was still some time, and I had to translate the correct file. Fortunately, SDL Trados helped me a lot.
It is an annoying memory
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 23:12
Member (2009)
English to German
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Julian Holmes wrote: In 30+ years of translation I always translate what the customer asks me to - what else am I supposed to do? (obvious rhetorical question) Now, if they send me the wrong file, then that's the client's problem not mine.
Same here.
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 18:12
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| A few times, a few different types of mistake | Oct 22, 2016 |
1. Translating the wrong file or one wrong file in a batch (one that was not supposed to be included);
2. Translating an entire file, when I was supposed to translate only part of it;
3. Translating to the wrong target-language, because part of the document was already translated, and I didn't notice;
4. Translating a file before it was actually authorized by the client, and the authorization never came;
All these have happened to me, and I might be able to think o... See more 1. Translating the wrong file or one wrong file in a batch (one that was not supposed to be included);
2. Translating an entire file, when I was supposed to translate only part of it;
3. Translating to the wrong target-language, because part of the document was already translated, and I didn't notice;
4. Translating a file before it was actually authorized by the client, and the authorization never came;
All these have happened to me, and I might be able to think of a few more... but I won't.
[Edited at 2016-10-22 17:35 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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I have translated the wrong part of the right file. once or twice.
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Judith Shiozawa (X)
Germany
Local time: 23:12
German to English
| I have never translated the wrong file,... | Oct 23, 2016 |
I have never translated the wrong file, but a client once gave me the wrong version of a file to update. I noticed this error, told the client, and was then paid extra to make the appropriate corrections.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 23:12
Member (2006)
German to English
Julian Holmes wrote: In 30+ years of translation I always translate what the customer asks me to - what else am I supposed to do? (obvious rhetorical question) Now, if they send me the wrong file, then that's the client's problem not mine.
.... but I am not qute that old yet☺
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