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How can I change my Paratext user name?

  1. Go to https://registry.paratext.org
  2. Log in to the site with your email address
  3. Click on your username at the top right
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  4. Click on “Change…” next to your Registration name: 2025 06 26 10 00 28
  5. Enter the updated name:

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    1. Ensure the name is available.
  6. Click the Change button.
  7. Your new name will be effective immediately and you will receive a new registration code by email.
  8. Copy/Paste your new registration name and registration code into Paratext:
    1. Paratext 9: Paratext menu > Help > Registration Information.
    2. Paratext 8: Tools menu > Registration Information.
  9. Restart Paratext.

For a more complete explanation of the implications of changing your name, please see this complete article: Change a user’s Registration Name

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How do I select or change my primary organization after registering?

Do you need to change the organization you are registered with? You can do this at any time, but you need to be aware of two things first:

  • Your registration must be accepted by the membership approver of the new organization, and it may take a while, depending on how responsive they are.
  • If your registration is approved, you will receive a new registration code that must be entered into Paratext to continue to have full functionality.

Request Membership of an Organization

Here is how to request membership of an organization for those with an existing registration.

  1. Go to https://registry.paratext.org and log in using the email account that you registered with.
  2. Click on your name at the top-right of the page:
    Click your name then my profile

    1. Click My Profile.
  3. Scroll down to Primary Organisation.
  4. Click Request membership of an organisation:
    Request membership of an organization
  5. Search for and select your organization:
    Search for and select organization

    1. Click the Request button.
  6. If you are not part of any organization listed, you may Request to be an Independent Translator

Change Membership to a Different Organization

If you see “Requested membership of [name of organization]”, this means your request is in process.

Mmembership requested

If it has taken too long, or you requested membership of the wrong organization, you may make another request as follows:

  1. Go to https://registry.paratext.org/orgs
  2. Search for your correct organization’s name and find it in the list below:
    Search for and find organization
  3. Do NOT click the View button.
  4. Instead click the down arrow next to the View button:
    request membership to organization

    1. Click Request Membership.

Request to be an Independent Translator (no Organization)

If you are not with an organization but are involved in a Bible translation project that follows the FOBAI Translation Standards, you may Request to be approved as an independent translator.

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Can I remove myself from a project?

Yes. Go to the delete project dialog, Project > Delete Project.  At the bottom left of the dialog look for the checkbox Also remove me from this project. If you check that box, you will be removed from the project as well as deleting the project from your computer.

If you don’t have the project you want to be removed from in Paratext, but are seeing it in your Send/Receive list, you have two options:

  1. Download the project to your computer first and then delete it as explained above, removing yourself from the project.
  2. You can simply hide the project in your send/receive list.  Go to File > Send/Receive Projects… Find the project in your list, hold down the ALT key and check the box for the project. The project will disappear from your list, and will appear in small type at the very bottom of the list. Should you want to reactivate it, you can go to the bottom of the list and do another ALT-click on the project to reactivate it.

 

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How can I delete my Paratext registration?

If you have logged in to the Paratext registry with different accounts, you may have created a duplicate registration. This will create confusion, and team members won’t know which account to add to a project. To delete an incorrect registration, go to registry.paratext.org and log in to the account you want to delete. Click on your name at the top right, and go to Settings. At the bottom of the page there is a button to click to delete your account. If you are a member of any registered projects, the site will inform you that you must remove yourself from these projects first. A link will show you the list of projects you are a member of. You can remove yourself from a project within Paratext by going to Project > Delete Project, selecting the project to delete, and checking the box “Also remove me from this project.” You can also ask the project administrator to remove you from a project.

Once you have removed yourself from all projects, you can click the “Delete my account” button, and your registration will be removed.

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Can I register another user for Paratext?

If you are the administrator of any Paratext project, you may register for someone who has difficulty accessing the internet or who does not have an e-mail address. Users registered in this way will be able to participate in projects and use resources, but will not be able to register projects of their own until they sign up for themselves.

  1. Login to the Paratext Registry.
  2. Click on the Users tab.
  3. Click on the “Register New User” button (at the top of the page)
  4. Fill out the form and you will receive the registration code after a delay if approval is necessary.

If adding a Paratext 7 user, be sure to type their name exactly as spelled for their Paratext 7 registration, and have their Paratext 7 Registration Code available (contact us if you need to find a Paratext 7 Registration Code). This is necessary for the successful migration of their project to Paratext 8.

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How do I know if my drive is NTFS?

The Convert Project tool will not work on a FAT32 drive. Since NTFS is the default file system for Windows since Windows 2000, your hard drive is probably NTFS unless it was deliberately configured to be FAT32. A USB drive is usually FAT32. To check your drive, go to Windows Explorer, right click on the drive icon and go to Properties.

On Linux: The Convert Project tool will run on a project stored on the ext4 file system (the default for Linux).

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When I try to register my project in Paratext 8, it says the project is already registered. What do do?

In preparation for moving to Paratext 8, a certain number of active projects in Paratext 7 were registered in Paratext 8, including the users then active in the Paratext 7 project. This creates a conflict when a new administrator in the Paratext 7 project attempts to migrate. His Paratext 8 does not see the existing registration because his name was not included in the registration. He cannot submit a new registration because it conflicts with the old one.  The person listed as the project administrator in the registry can add the new administrator on the project members page of the registry, this will cause the new admin’s Paratext 8 to recognize the project as registered and permit him to continue the migration.
Paratext 8, like Paratext 7 will accept multiple projects with the same name, but will not accept multiple projects with the same name and the same users.

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Why has some part of Paratext started running slowly?

Some updates issued by Microsoft are known to affect the performance of applications like Paratext which rely on those updates. Microsoft updates are usually issued in order to fix security risks or bugs. Sometimes there is nothing the Paratext developers can do to fix these issues. Subsequent updates from Microsoft will normally restore the original performance but it may take months.

The following updates are known to slow the performance of switching between windows:

  • On Windows 7, you will see the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 as an installed product under Programs and Features in Control Panel.
  • On Windows 8.1 you can find this as Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3186539) under Installed Updates in Control Panel.
  • On Windows 10 you can find this as Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3186568) under Installed Updates in Control Panel. After two weeks, the Windows 10 update becomes permanent and can’t be uninstalled.

We advise that you do not disable automatic windows updates as a solution to this problem as this may cause you to miss critical security fixes.

If you choose to uninstall any of the above updates, you may need to reinstall Paratext to get a working version of .NET installed. This should not affect your Paratext project data.

There is always a possibility that altering system level software will leave Paratext completely non-functional. If you are or have access to someone with experience troubleshooting and fixing system software this is very likely fixable. If you do not have such access you are taking a serious risk in trying to fix system level problems. It may be better to wait for Microsoft to distribute the update that fixes this. We believe that this is resolved in .NET 4.7.1 but our best guess is that Microsoft will not distribute this to most users until September.

 

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I lost my registration code. How do I find it?

Find your Existing Registration Code

You can find your existing Registration Code by following these instructions: Find my Registration Code.

Generate a New Code (Reset Your Registration Code)

If your computer dies, is stolen, or you cannot find your code, you can generate a new code.

Important Note: This will invalidate your current Registration Code and you will no longer be able to do Send/Receive. You will need to enter your new code for Send/Receive to work again.

To generate a new code:

  1. Log in to registry.paratext.org
  2. Click on your name in the top right corner (1).
    1. Click Registration (2):
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  3. Click the Generate button:
    Click Generate
  4. Click copy to copy the new code:
    Click Copy

    1. The new code will also be sent to you by email.
  5. For each device where you use Paratext, copy/paste the new code into Paratext:
    1. Paratext 9: Go to the Paratext menu > Help > Registration Information.
    2. Paratext 8: Go to Tools > Registration Information.
    3. Paratext Lite: Go to the Main menu > More arrow > Registration.

The new code will be linked to the same user and projects, so nothing needs to change at the project level. Just enter your new code in the Registration Information dialog, and you can resume working.

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How soon must I upgrade to Paratext 8?

The Paratext 7 Send/Receive server will continue to work for a period of time after the release of 8, but we won’t have the capability to continue to support both platforms for long.  We will give you as much time as we can to upgrade to 8, but we recommend that you try to upgrade within nine months of the stable release.