https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636694#M21394 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="The data I want to import is in my myFolders folder but it will not import." style="width: 749px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37653iA5728CD2E29DB3C4/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 3.34.28 PM.png" alt="The data I want to import is in my myFolders folder but it will not import." /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">The data I want to import is in my myFolders folder but it will not import.</span></span></P><P>I am trying to import data, so I saved it into my myFolders folder on my desktop but when I try to import it in sas, it just says the selected file is invalid.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:38:46 GMT julia7 2020-04-01T22:38:46Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636694#M21394 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="The data I want to import is in my myFolders folder but it will not import." style="width: 749px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37653iA5728CD2E29DB3C4/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 3.34.28 PM.png" alt="The data I want to import is in my myFolders folder but it will not import." /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">The data I want to import is in my myFolders folder but it will not import.</span></span></P><P>I am trying to import data, so I saved it into my myFolders folder on my desktop but when I try to import it in sas, it just says the selected file is invalid.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:38:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636694#M21394 julia7 2020-04-01T22:38:46Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636705#M21399 <P>What kind of file is that .dat file? How you try to "import" it?</P> Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:20:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636705#M21399 Tom 2020-04-01T23:20:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636739#M21405 It is just a raw data file, and I am going into the import data drop down from the top left button on SAS university edition. It prompts me to select a file from my computer, and I select a file from my myfolders folder I have connected to SAS through virtualbox, but when I select import it says invalid.<BR /> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 01:29:08 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636739#M21405 julia7 2020-04-02T01:29:08Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636849#M21408 <P>I guess that SAS does not know (from the extension) what to do with the file. .dat is an extension used for a LOT of file formats.</P> <P>If it is a text file, you can use proc import with the proper dbms= value; or (preferred) just write a data step to read it.</P> <P>What does the documentation you received with the file say?</P> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:06:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/importing-data-and-says-quot-the-selected-file-is-invalid-quot/m-p/636849#M21408 Kurt_Bremser 2020-04-02T12:06:09Z