LIBRARY DOES NOT EXIST

[TonyTrew]

when I run: LIBNAME MYLIB "\\TONY-Pc\C$\SASfolder";
I get NOTE: Library MYLIB does not exist.
The path definitely exits, is 'Shared with everyone" for read and write and contains a sas datafile: sal_2001.sas7bdat

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

Are you trying to access this folder through SAS/Studio? Or some other SAS interface? (if so, please specify).

SAS Studio cannot access your PCs drive. You have to upload the files to the server where SAS Studio is running.

[TonyTrew]

I am trying to access it from SAS/Studio - because the datafile I've been
given is 2,6GB, way beyond the 1GB upload limit for SAS On Demand for
Academics - Is there anyway I can use the datafile without getting it split
into files smaller than iGB

[Reeza]

ZIP file and upload it, or store it on a different cloud service and access it from there. 

[TonyTrew]

If I upload a zipped file can it be unzipped in the SAS server?

[Reeza]

You can read from the zipped file directly.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2015/05/11/using-filename-zip-to-unzip-and-read-data-files-in...

[Reeza]

See this thread 🙂

https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Import-txt-data-SAS-on-demand/m-p/815468

[TonyTrew]

The quick reply made clear I was on a wrong track.

As a result I looked for a different approach and finally found that SPSS can read SAS datafiles of any size