Dealing with TIPP files

Forum: XTM Cloud support
Topic: Dealing with TIPP files
Poster: Samuel Murray

Hello everyone

Every now and then I get an XTM job that consists of dozens of tiny files instead of just one file. Since I do the translations offline in my CAT tool, this can be annoying because XTM doesn't allow one to upload all files at once (one has to upload each of the files one by one by one, and it's not fast).

I noticed that I can also download the entire job as a TIPP file, so I tried it out.

The TIPP file is a normal zip file with two files in it, namely a manifest.xml and a resources.zip file. The resources.zip file contains a subfolder named "bilingual", and inside it is an XLF file.

So I unzipped it all, translated the XLF file, and then used 7-zip's excellent archive browser to replace the original XLF file with the translated one. But when I try to upload it, XTM isn't happy. It says:

[i]XTM is unable to validate this TIPP file. We have identified the following issues:
- An invalid unique response ID
- This is not a task response package [/i]

What does this mean? Where does the problem lie? The new XLF file has the same name and is in the same location inside the TIPP file as the original.

Thanks
Samuel

(or: perhaps there is a neat trick that will allow me to upload an entire job's files as a single zip file...?)