https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648274#M36041 <P>yep, sure, thanks man!</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 12:17:44 GMT PleaseHelpKMS 2020-05-16T12:17:44Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648272#M36039 <P>I get the error "An error occurred while attempting to display a message. The details of the message were: --------" when I try to open a .sas7bdat file. Also SAS enterprise Guide crashses after that. I have all the latest versions, I reinstalled SAS a number of times, changing the software version every time, and I always get the same error. The file is not corrupted as I tried to open different .sas7bdat files and I get the same error, I also sent my files to colleagues with the same version of SAS Enterprise Guide and they can open the files just fine. Please help!</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 11:45:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648272#M36039 PleaseHelpKMS 2020-05-16T11:45:00Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648273#M36040 <P>Remove all SAS components first (using Control Panel), then install everything from the ground up. If that does not fix it, I suggest the Windows solution #1: format the system drive and reinstall Windows from scratch, followed by the SAS software.</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 12:06:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648273#M36040 Kurt_Bremser 2020-05-16T12:06:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648274#M36041 <P>yep, sure, thanks man!</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 12:17:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648274#M36041 PleaseHelpKMS 2020-05-16T12:17:44Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648287#M36042 <P>Instead of opening the file directly, can you assign a SAS library to the path and access the data from there?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>It sounds like you have SAS installed on your machine as well as EG.&nbsp; But if not, try the Upload Data Set to Server task to send your data set to a library on your SAS session (could be WORK) and see if you can access that way.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>A little behind-the-scenes info: when you double-click or select to open a sas7bdat file in EG, one of two approaches is followed:</P> <UL> <LI>If you have SAS on your local machine, EG will connect to your local SAS and assign a temporary libname to access the data from your local file path.</LI> <LI>If you don't have SAS locally, EG will use the SAS OLE DB Local Data provider to read the data directly to provide you with a data view.&nbsp; However, if you run a task or query, EG will copy that data to your remote SAS session to make the data available there.</LI> </UL> <P>If you can provide the details of the message, I might be able to provide some more insight into what's happening here.</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 14:28:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648287#M36042 ChrisHemedinger 2020-05-16T14:28:20Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648308#M36043 <P>"--------" is literally the message of the error. <IMG src="https://i.imgur.com/XGUxjEz.png" border="0" /></P><P>I tried uploading the data to the server and opening it from there in my EG, it's the only thing that worked so far, thank you!</P> Sat, 16 May 2020 15:35:34 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Error-quot-An-error-occurred-while-attempting-to-display-a/m-p/648308#M36043 PleaseHelpKMS 2020-05-16T15:35:34Z