Orphan Recovery: lost translations

StoreLingo keeps track of which translated copy in Webflow belongs to which source item. If that link is lost, the copies are still in your Webflow site, but StoreLingo no longer knows them. The Lost translations dialog finds those copies and lets you adopt them back or delete them.

When this happens

• You uninstalled StoreLingo, or deleted your StoreLingo account, and connected the site again later.
• You removed the site in StoreLingo and connected it again.
• Someone else (a colleague, an agency) published translations to this site from another StoreLingo account.

What counts as a lost translation

A copy in your Webflow site that:

1. has a Locale value that is not your source language (for example de), and
2. is not linked to anything StoreLingo tracks on this site.

A copy without a Locale value cannot be found this way. If you cleared a copy's Locale value, or deleted the Locale field, in Webflow, this dialog does not find that copy.

Opening the dialog

• After you connect a site and the first sync finishes, StoreLingo checks for lost translations. If it finds any, a message offers Recover, which opens the dialog.
• You can open it at any time with Find orphaned translations in the sidebar.

The dialog

Each row is one copy found in Webflow:

• Name: the copy's name and slug in Webflow.
• Matches: the source product or item StoreLingo thinks it was translated from, found by slug and by name. No match means StoreLingo could not find one source with certainty.
• Locale: the language in the copy's Locale field.
• Kind: Product, or the CMS collection it belongs to.
• Action: Adopt or Delete.

Adopt all and Delete all set every row at once. Nothing happens until you click Apply. Cancel closes it without changes.

What Adopt does

For each adopted copy, StoreLingo:

1. adds the copy's language to your language list if it is not there yet;
2. reads the copy's translated fields from Webflow and stores them in StoreLingo with the status approved. A field that still holds your source text (it was never translated before the copy was published) is left empty instead, so AI translate missing fills it;
3. links the copy to its source again, so your next publish updates this copy instead of creating a new one.

No AI translation runs and no AI characters are used.

Adopting needs an active account (trial or plan).

What Delete does

Delete removes the copy from your Webflow site: a translated product with its variants, or a translated CMS item. It cannot be undone. Use it for copies you no longer want, or for rows marked No match that you do not want to link by hand.

A deleted copy leaves every list on your live site at once. A deleted CMS item's page goes at once too; a deleted product page stays reachable by its direct link until you next publish your site in Webflow.

Deleting stays available when your account is inactive.

Why some rows say No match

When two source items look the same after StoreLingo simplifies their names and slugs (for example "Blue Mug" and "Blue-Mug"), it does not guess between them and shows No match. If you know which source a copy belongs to and it shows No match, delete the copy and publish that language again.

What this dialog is not for

• It does not clean up copies StoreLingo still tracks. To remove those, use Remove translations from Webflow in the site's menu, or see Ownership.
• It does not undo a publish. Correct the translation in StoreLingo and publish again.
• It cannot adopt a copy whose source item no longer exists in Webflow.