topic Autosave in New SAS User

Autosave

tmlee02 — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:07:49 GMT

In my files and folders, I noted a second copy of a dataset I was working on with the same name but a "~" symbol in front. Is this from autosave?

ex: dataset.xls

new dataset also saved into files: ~dataset.xls

Thanks!

Re: Autosave

PaigeMiller — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:28:12 GMT

Autosave in SAS refers the .sas files, not .xls or .xlsx files.

The tilde may indicate that the .xls file is in use.

Re: Autosave

SASJedi — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:12:34 GMT

The file with the tilde in the title is not associated with SAS. It is created when Microsoft Excel opens a file and will disappear automatically when Excel shuts down normally.

For example, here are the folder contents while test.xlsx is open in Excel:

And after I close Excel, this is the folder contents:

If Excel crashes with a file open, the file with the ~ in the title remains in the folder.