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I have two SIL files from 2 separate projects that I want to merge together. I use this command line:
The elements from file2.sil all end up in file1.sil as I would expect, but they have all lost their delimiter.

file2.sil merged into file1.sil The delimiter is the same in both files (@#@#) and the languages are both the same.

Some lines come through correctly, usually those with a standard caption such as OK or Cancel.

I tried changing the command line to use only language 1 ("Standard"):
But this time not even the captions such as OK appeared with a delimiter.

If I use the SIL Editor to manually perform the merge (form the File menu), it works OK, all of the delimiters are saved correctly. In this case, I choose only "Standard" language (number 1), tick "Merge empty cells in original file" and don't tick "Skip superfluous entries".

Any thoughts please?

Actually, the manual merge using SILEditor.exe doesn't quite work either. This time I selected both languages in the Merge Wizard.

All of the items under [Captions], [Hints] and [Other] are correctly merged into the new file:
but under [Collections], [DisplayLabels], in fact everything else, I end up with:
This was like this in the original file (note the delimiter at the end):

Performing this on SIB files works 100% correctly, the files are merged perfectly. The problem appears to be with SIL files.

Please send us sample SIL files to reproduce this problem.

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