https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622912#M4189 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/111802">@JamesPower4</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <P>Hello: I'm being overly careful, so please forgive me if this is a naive question.</P> <P>Can SAS datasets safely be kept in a folder that is being synchronized to the "cloud", such as a OneDrive folder?</P> <P>I'm asking because I know that Access databases definitely cannot be stored in such locations - if the database is open when synchronization occurs the database is corrupted (guess how I know that!).</P> <P>I assume it's safe with SAS datasets, because my understanding is that SAS always writes out a new dataset before deleting its predecessor, so that synchronization is unlikely to mess with it. Nonetheless if anyone can reassure me I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I've been working for more than a year will all my SAS datasets except my work folder on a OneDrive location with no problems of data corruption. My data sets seldom exceed a few megabytes though.</P> Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:02:47 GMT ballardw 2020-02-07T00:02:47Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622901#M4188 <P>Hello: I'm being overly careful, so please forgive me if this is a naive question.</P><P>Can SAS datasets safely be kept in a folder that is being synchronized to the "cloud", such as a OneDrive folder?</P><P>I'm asking because I know that Access databases definitely cannot be stored in such locations - if the database is open when synchronization occurs the database is corrupted (guess how I know that!).</P><P>I assume it's safe with SAS datasets, because my understanding is that SAS always writes out a new dataset before deleting its predecessor, so that synchronization is unlikely to mess with it. Nonetheless if anyone can reassure me I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.</P> Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:42:34 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622901#M4188 JamesPower4 2020-02-06T23:42:34Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622912#M4189 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/111802">@JamesPower4</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <P>Hello: I'm being overly careful, so please forgive me if this is a naive question.</P> <P>Can SAS datasets safely be kept in a folder that is being synchronized to the "cloud", such as a OneDrive folder?</P> <P>I'm asking because I know that Access databases definitely cannot be stored in such locations - if the database is open when synchronization occurs the database is corrupted (guess how I know that!).</P> <P>I assume it's safe with SAS datasets, because my understanding is that SAS always writes out a new dataset before deleting its predecessor, so that synchronization is unlikely to mess with it. Nonetheless if anyone can reassure me I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I've been working for more than a year will all my SAS datasets except my work folder on a OneDrive location with no problems of data corruption. My data sets seldom exceed a few megabytes though.</P> Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:02:47 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622912#M4189 ballardw 2020-02-07T00:02:47Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622917#M4190 Many thanks for the quick reply. I do believe it's OK, but just to be safe I want to find out if anyone has encountered corruption of their datasets. Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:37:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/Safe-to-store-SAS-datasets-in-a-folder-that-is-synchronized/m-p/622917#M4190 JamesPower4 2020-02-07T00:37:04Z