topic Re: Is SAS really smart enough to switch XP paths to Windows 7 paths? in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120874#M24798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I think that is a Windows feature and not something that SAS has done.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:17:56 GMT Tom 2012-05-19T18:17:56Z Is SAS really smart enough to switch XP paths to Windows 7 paths? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120873#M24797 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our organization is currently in the process of migrating from Windows XP. As you may know, the path to a user's documents folder changes during that migration, from</P><P><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">C:\Documents and Settings\<EM>&lt;userid&gt;</EM>\My Documents</SPAN>, in XP</P><P><SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">C:\Users\<EM>&lt;userid&gt;</EM>\My Documents <SPAN style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in Win 7 </SPAN></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One of our SAS users has a lot of data -- including SAS datasets, .csv files and other external files, in her My Documents folder, and she has written a lot of programs with INFILE and LIBNAME statements that point to the XP path: c:\document and settings\... </SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When she moved to Win 7 she expected to have to change the paths on all these statements, but she tried running a program anyway -- and it worked. The program found the datasets and libraries in the C:\Users locations. But, strangely, the logs and properties pages all showed the files at physical locations on the c:\documents and settings path.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm not complaining -- I think it's pretty cool that SAS is smart enough to convert these paths on the fly -- but I wonder if someone can confirm my analysis of what happened, so I can reassure my user that her programs really are working correctly.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 May 2012 20:27:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120873#M24797 MitchNussbaum 2012-05-18T20:27:25Z Re: Is SAS really smart enough to switch XP paths to Windows 7 paths? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120874#M24798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I think that is a Windows feature and not something that SAS has done.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:17:56 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120874#M24798 Tom 2012-05-19T18:17:56Z Re: Is SAS really smart enough to switch XP paths to Windows 7 paths? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120875#M24799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Maybe you need to check environment variable TEMP(note: it is user variable, not system variable . )&nbsp; under WIN7 ,and add "<SPAN style="font-family: courier new,courier;">C:\Documents and Settings\<EM>&lt;userid&gt;</EM>\My Documents"&nbsp; into it.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 May 2012 03:12:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Is-SAS-really-smart-enough-to-switch-XP-paths-to-Windows-7-paths/m-p/120875#M24799 Ksharp 2012-05-21T03:12:49Z