https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379218#M91262 <P>SAS EG usually works on a server so you need to upload your data to the server. This would require you to upload the file, you can look at Copy Task to move data to the server, it's a custom task.</P> Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:37:22 GMT Reeza 2017-07-25T21:37:22Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379203#M91254 <P>HI, anybody can help? i download a test.sas7bdat file online, and saved it to my c: mydata folder, but when i use the code :<BR /><BR />data want;<BR />set 'c: \mydata\test.sas7bdat';<BR /><BR /><BR />i got error message:<BR /><BR />the value 'c: \mydata\test'n is not a valid sas member name. where is the problem?</P> Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:25:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379203#M91254 emoryustc 2017-07-25T20:25:16Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379205#M91255 <P>Do you really have a space between the C: and the \ ?</P> <P>Is SAS actually running on your PC or is your copy of Enterprise Guide connecting to SAS that is running on some other server?</P> Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:52:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379205#M91255 Tom 2017-07-25T20:52:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379218#M91262 <P>SAS EG usually works on a server so you need to upload your data to the server. This would require you to upload the file, you can look at Copy Task to move data to the server, it's a custom task.</P> Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:37:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379218#M91262 Reeza 2017-07-25T21:37:22Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379221#M91264 Yes, this works, it seems EG works with authorization Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:44:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Using-SAS-Enterprise-Guide-with-my-local-c-sas7bdat-data/m-p/379221#M91264 emoryustc 2017-07-25T21:44:24Z