Note: this article was originally posted in October 2015


If you have a collaboration set up, and you use the File menu command “Save (Transfer Translation Draft To Paratext)”, but it fails to save, and returns an error which includes the text: “PT/BE Collaboration wxExecute returned error when writing target text…”, the most likely cause is that the target text project in Paratext lacks a sufficiently high permission level. Translator or Administrator level is needed; because the data transfer looks to Paratext like an edit attempt.

If collaboration fails