I updated our theme Impulse from version 7.1 to 7.2. Most translations are now gone, albeit not all of them. Navigation, pages and product content are still there. How can the new version be missing the translations as the base language is still available to all elements? Since the reference to the …

@elenalauder @Ogenstad I think I might have a short term fix for you to help copy the translations from the old theme to the new theme, based on the translations CSV. You’ll need the CSV for both the old theme, with its translations in place, and the new one, without translations. Languages > Setti…

Hello @Ogenstad , We are Transcy - a powerful translator and currencies converter. Sorry for the issue you’re facing with, maybe there’s some errors occurs while the update process is running. To copy the translation from the old version to the new, you can try: Export and import the translation…

Hey @Ogenstad , Theme translations are local to that theme. This is because themes can differ vastly and each element has a unique id - there’s no easy way to port them from one theme to another unless the theme is duplicated. They will need to be manually copied to the new theme. To do that, make t…

Hi Richbrown_staff, I have the same problem. After updating my theme to the latest version, I can’t find the old translations. I found out myself that the translations are not in the exported zipped theme (I searched the files with a text editor). So the translation must be local on the shopify s…

Hello richbrown_staff, thank you for taking the time to explain in detail. I understood everything, it all worked, but somehow the formula is not correct. Did you maybe made a mistake, when inserting the formula in H2 in Sheet 1 I get an error in Google Sheet always "Parser error, check the formul…

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Hello Richbrown_staff, Thanks for the motivation to help me and thanks for the efforts. I have found out the problem myself. I had this before, the formula does not match my german interface. The formula must be language specific for it to work. If someone also has the same problem, here is the…

I never knew Google Sheets did formulas in different languages - thanks for sharing! So glad it worked for you. We’ll definitely look to integrate it in natively at some point in the future. Best wishes, Rich

This is the real only solution? Is not sustainable to be downloading, making vlookups and re-uploading this everytime a theme is updated. Shopify would need to bring a better solution for this.

HI @lasrv - every time you update your theme, or change your theme? Can you let me know the workflow you follow where you’re finding that the ONLINE_STORE_THEME field ids are regularly changing?

I’ve now come to the point where I’m going to try and upgrade our theme. Appart from language translatations, each product image is also translated (both from a ALT-perspective but also from a file perspective). Do I have to reuppload and remap thousands of images? Being an IT-architect of enterpr…

Why did my theme update erase most translations?

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Why did my theme update erase most translations?

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