https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ACCESSING-AND-SAVING-SAS-DATA-IN-LOCAL-DRIVE-C/m-p/836333#M330682 <P>Hi,</P><P>I have been using the SAS - On demand - version and I tried to create libname which will access sas data</P><P>from the folder in my local C drive, but it is always showing that library&nbsp; does not exist.</P><PRE>libname sasdata "\C:\datasets\sasdata";</PRE><P>Why is it not working. Do I have to sas software for that?&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Sat, 01 Oct 2022 23:57:21 GMT u61817627 2022-10-01T23:57:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ACCESSING-AND-SAVING-SAS-DATA-IN-LOCAL-DRIVE-C/m-p/836333#M330682 <P>Hi,</P><P>I have been using the SAS - On demand - version and I tried to create libname which will access sas data</P><P>from the folder in my local C drive, but it is always showing that library&nbsp; does not exist.</P><PRE>libname sasdata "\C:\datasets\sasdata";</PRE><P>Why is it not working. Do I have to sas software for that?&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Sat, 01 Oct 2022 23:57:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ACCESSING-AND-SAVING-SAS-DATA-IN-LOCAL-DRIVE-C/m-p/836333#M330682 u61817627 2022-10-01T23:57:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ACCESSING-AND-SAVING-SAS-DATA-IN-LOCAL-DRIVE-C/m-p/836338#M330684 <P>Besides for you pathname starting with a backlash - no, not possible.</P> <P>If you search the forums with your question you will find discussions like this one:&nbsp;<A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Software-for-Learning/Permanent-library-to-my-local-drive-in-SAS-Studio/m-p/824344" target="_blank">https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Software-for-Learning/Permanent-library-to-my-local-drive-in-SAS-Studio/m-p/824344</A>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 02 Oct 2022 01:38:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/ACCESSING-AND-SAVING-SAS-DATA-IN-LOCAL-DRIVE-C/m-p/836338#M330684 Patrick 2022-10-02T01:38:44Z