topic Re: Clicking "Clear all" on log closes program in SAS Programming

Clicking "Clear all" on log closes program

IanTfirn — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:46:04 GMT

Anytime I attempt to clear my log by using "edit --> Clear all", SAS abruptly closes. There is a very long error message that flashes for split second before closing, but I can't make it out. Has anyone ever had this issue? Are there any remedies?

Re: Clicking "Clear all" on log closes program

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:08:29 GMT

Never seen this before. However, you can try to clear the log with the following code instead..

dm log "clear";

Re: Clicking "Clear all" on log closes program

IanTfirn — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:13:17 GMT

Easy enough. I'll certainly use that for the time being.

Edit: I tried this and it closed me out of SAS as well. It seems like no matter how I attempt to clear the log, SAS closes.

Re: Clicking "Clear all" on log closes program

IanTfirn — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:19:54 GMT

I reinstalled SAS and the problem was fixed.

Re: Clicking "Clear all" on log closes program

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:58:45 GMT

I guess that was the hard but necessary way to fix it 🙂

Glad you found your answer and welcome to the SAS communities