SAS Studio NOT Recognizing Libname

[jjadalla]

Hello:

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.  I received the following note in SAS Studio:

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

72

73 libname alam "C:\Users\Owner\Dropbox\SAS_data\alam";

NOTE: Library ALAM does not exist.

74 run;

75

76 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

88

My original code is:

libname alam "C:\Users\Owner\Dropbox\SAS_data\alam";
run;

[jjadalla]

Thank you so much for your help!  I looked at a previous post in the Communities and, indeed, I am using double quotes (not single quotes).

[novinosrin]

is alam a dataset name or the folder name that has the datasets?

[jjadalla]

alam is a folder that has datasets in it.

[Reeza]

Are you using SAS University Edition?

[jjadalla]

Yes

[Kurt_Bremser]

PLEASE follow the instructions and tutorials for SAS UE.

University Edition runs in a Linux virtual machine, and it can only "see" the shared folder you defined while setting up the VM. If you followed the instructions, this is found as /folders/myfolders in UE.

[jjadalla]

Thank you Kurt.  I tried the following:

libname test "C:\Users\Owner\Dropbox\Desktop\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders";
run;

and that didn't work either.

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

It should be

/folders/myfolders/

This is because SAS is actually running on a VM working on your desktop and /folders/ is the path to where you've set the virtual machine to share that folder. If you search SAS UE and lib name or path on here you'll find a lot of similar questions.

[jjadalla]

Outstanding - thank you so much Reeza!

God bless you and your family!!!

Jadallah