topic Re: A SAS Program Starts Running As soon as I open the .sas program on PC SAS 9.4 in SAS Programming

A SAS Program Starts Running As soon as I open the .sas program on PC SAS 9.4

Santt0sh — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:55:57 GMT

Hi All,

I am not sure what's wrong with my PC SAS 9.4(OS Windows ver 6.2.9200.

When I try to click open any .Sas program it starts executing or running without me hitting F3 or submit the selection.
This is causing problems overwriting the The existing datasets if run successfully.

Can you please guide me on this?

Regards,
Santosh

Re: A SAS Program Starts Running As soon as I open the .sas program on PC SAS 9.4

Tom — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:13:46 GMT

I suspect that want you are talking about is browsing to a SAS program file in Windows Explorer and double clicking it.

So it appears that on your machine that action is mapped to running the program instead of editing the program.

Do you have a local SAS admin that is responsible for installing SAS on your machine? If so ask them how to change the default action. Otherwise you might need to figure out how to do that yourself using Windows, but that is getting harder as Windows keeps changing how it works.

It might just be easier to change your behavior. On my machine when I right click on a .SAS file this menu pop-ups up. As you can see the OPEN choice is set as the default action, but there are other actions I could pick.

Re: A SAS Program Starts Running As soon as I open the .sas program on PC SAS 9.4

FreelanceReinh — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:36:58 GMT

Hi @Santt0sh,

Just in case you haven't seen it: The recent discussion Double clicking .sas file opens 9.4 but not the file contains a link to a relevant SAS "Problem Note" as well as suggestions on how you can quickly open .sas files without the risk of submitting code accidentally.