temporary library path

[cx2019]

Why the directory path of a temporary library differs from before when we restart SAS?

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

You will find a clue in your subject line:

Temporary - "lasting for only a limited period of time; not permanent."

The temporary folder is there as a temporary storage of items for the session only, it disappears at the end of the session.

[ballardw]

Adding to @RW9's response. If you manage to crash SAS or have a power failure or similar then when SAS restarts is does not reuse your old folder so temporary work might be recoverable.

[Kurt_Bremser]

The directory name used for the WORK library has (among other things) the process number encoded, so that a certain directory can always be connected with its SAS session. The cleanwork utility uses this to find orphaned directories from crashed sessions.