topic Re: MYSASFIles created on every folder where an egp project is opened. in Administration and Deployment

MYSASFIles created on every folder where an egp project is opened.

thesasuser — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:55:33 GMT

We have a new user who has a 'My SAS Files' folder created in every folder he opens a new .egp project in. For all other users 'My SAS Files' folder is created in the Documents folder.
In our environment users have SAS Enterprise Guide 7.15 / Windows 10 on their client machines and SAS 9.4 runs on Windows servers.
The issue has never happened for anyone else before. We'd like some help to identify what could be causing this.

Re: MYSASFIles created on every folder where an egp project is opened.

whymath — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:51:53 GMT

Does he/she have access to the Documents folder?

Re: MYSASFIles created on every folder where an egp project is opened.

thesasuser — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:56:02 GMT

yes

Re: MYSASFIles created on every folder where an egp project is opened.

Tom — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:20:30 GMT

Are you sure Enterprise Guide is creating those directories? Or were they already there before the user even started Enterprise Guide? You could do an experiment by making a new empty folder and place only a single Enterprise Guide project file in it. Then have the user open it. Make sure to see exactly what actions they take to get it open. Then check if a new MY SAS Files folder has been created there.

No idea how Enterprise Guide decides when to create a MY SAS files folder for a user. If it decides to make one in the users "home" folder when there isn't one already then it kind of looks like the pointer to the users home directory is off and is somehow been set to whatever is the current directory so that when the user moves around EG thinks that is their home directory and notices that it needs to make them a MY SAS Folder.

Re: MYSASFIles created on every folder where an egp project is opened.

Sajid01 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:33:21 GMT

Hello

I am in agreement with @Tom about "No idea how Enterprise Guide decides when to create a MY SAS files folder for a user."
IMHO solving this issue requires an understanding of the mechanism of how these files are created

(Where ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power).