Tricky clean up in Trados

Tring to solve our yesterday's problems, we spent quite a lot of time testing different things, and eventually came up with an interesting finding.

Cleanup settings do not depend on the language combination set for the TTX files to clean up. What it depends on, is the language combination of a TM you clean the files up to (even if you select not to update it).

So, if you just need to clean up some files translated into German and don't care which TM you have open, and it happens to be a Chinese or Japanese TM, you will receive your translation without any spaces between sentences. And just the other way round, if you clean up Chinese files to a dummy Italian TM you won't be able to get rid of the spaces.

So, just be careful when cleaning the files up!