topic Re: How to recover unsaved codes? in SAS Procedures

How to recover unsaved codes?

mnew — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:10:47 GMT

Hi there:

Accidentally closed my SAS session. Did not save anything before this happened unexpectedly. (Yes I should have, even as a new SAS user! Was too absorbed following along the SAS online training...)

Is there any hope to recover my SAS code, or even just the log? (I'm using windows xp...)

Is there a way to have SAS autosave the codes like in Excel?

Thank you. I will try to remember my lesson but might not succeed all the time.

Re: How to recover unsaved codes?

ArtC — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:30:27 GMT

Short answer: Maybe.

Enhanced Editor code is saved every 10 minutes (by default). The location is hard to remember, but is described in
http://support.sas.com/kb/12/392.html

You can change the location using the autosaveloc= system option.

Re: How to recover unsaved codes?

mnew — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:28:47 GMT

Thank you!
The short story is I was able to recover the codes.
In case this might help someone in the future, here is the long report.

I went to the support link. Almost gave up my hope as I read "Note that the backup files are deleted when the Enhanced Editor window containing the SAS program code is closed or you exit SAS. "

But I was still curious about the file location. Followed the instruction and found the $AS file. Tried to open it with SAS. Got an error message telling me the file did not exist...

In the end found out I could open it with text editor programs (notepad etc).
Happy ending.

Re: How to recover unsaved codes?

shahadatunina — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:49:08 GMT

it worked, thanks

Re: How to recover unsaved codes?

atzamis — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:37:37 GMT

Hi,

had you changed the extension from .$as to .SAS (after copying it to another location so as not damage the original file) you could have opened normally as any other sas program (because you said that you had to use a text editor).