topic Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand in SAS Programming

Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

LRothman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:33:03 GMT

My Sas OnDemand for Academics suddenly froze. When I reopened, my program that I had saved regularly was completely gone. Any way to retrieve it? There is no document recovery option evident.

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:01:37 GMT

Where did you save your program? Home or any other folder/directory?

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

LRothman — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:20:07 GMT

Hi,
I was saving it onto the Server Files (Home)- kept hitting the Save icon.
Completely disappeared.
Thanks!

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

MarkusWeick — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:34:05 GMT

Hi @LRothman , "kept hitting the Save icon" sounds like it wasn't activated. Could you please post a screen shot of your saving attempt?

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:03:02 GMT

Which name did you give it?

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

LRothman — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:33:07 GMT

Concussion.sas

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

tc — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:00:24 GMT

Don't know if this is what happened to you, but what still confuses me momentarily whenever it happens to me is that a save does nothing if you haven't selected a directory to save the file in AND you are not notified what the problem is, leading to the repeated save attempts you noted. I've also seen this with software other than SAS Studio - wish UI/UX folks would address this, because it can drive one crazy! 😀

The other gotcha here is that SAS Studio does a good job of making unsaved changes available when you open your next session, but ONLY if you've done an initial save. Again, this can happen with other software, but if SAS is looking for enhancement ideas, I like the approach that software like Jupyter, VS Code, and Snowflake have adopted, which is to make unsaved code available across sessions in a default name (e.g., as untitled-1.pynb), although I have to confess I didn't like this practice at first! 🙂

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

LRothman — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:38:02 GMT

HI,
Thanks - but it was saved in the directory right at the beginning. Still
not idea why this happened, but so unbelievably frustrating. Days and days
of work.

Re: Lost my saved sas program in Sas OnDemand

LRothman — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:40:17 GMT

Hi,

Thanks, but it was days ago. I hit the "Save" icon on the top. The program showed up on the window on the left under my identified server folder. And then it suddenly was gone.

Thanks