topic Re: Reading files from my folders in SAS Programming

Reading files from my folders

jacksonan123 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:30:39 GMT

I have been using a Lenovo think pad to do my SAS analyses and I had a path:

infile '/folders/myfolders/Boot_ped/refs/REF.CTL'

Which worked with no issues. I recently purchased a DELL work station and now when I use the same path I get the following error

ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /folders/myfolders/Boot_ped/refs/REF.CTL.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.00 seconds
cpu time 0.00 seconds

I have tried several different paths but none seem to work. Can anyone speculate as to why the path would change and what would be the new path? Is there a way to verify path?

I have tried this under virtual box and VMware with same results.

Re: Reading files from my folders

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:38:06 GMT

When SAS tells you a file is not there, it's not there.

Make sure that the shared folder is set up correctly.

Check the spelling of file and path names; the UNIX in the virtual machine is case sensitive.

Re: Reading files from my folders

jacksonan123 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:56:18 GMT

I have tried all of the things you suggested and none worked. To determine
if the I had access to the programs, I opened a sas program from the
directory on the side.

It loaded without issue so I am unsure if that tells me anything or not. I
returned to the shared files set up to see if I had made an error but I saw
no issue.

Re: Reading files from my folders

Amir — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:14:19 GMT

Not sure what SAS product you are using. See if you can open the file through SAS using an open dialog box, or by navigating to it through a server path.

If you do manage to locate the file, then try getting properties on the file (e.g., right-click on it and then select properties), this would typically bring up the path to the file and then you could try copying and pasting it into your code to prevent any transcription errors.

If you are still having problems then consider if the file was created by some other process on your old machine and consider if that process needs to be run using the new machine.

If you can't navigate to the file (i.e., you can't find it as SAS has said) then I would suggest you need to create it.

Make sure any earlier processes that were supposed to have created it have completed correctly bu checking the logs or even just run them again if necessary.

Kind regards,

Amir.