Hi:
The "/folders/myfolders" location is an alias or nickname or reference that is how the Virtual Machine host (probably VirtualBox or VMWare Player) references your physical location. Look again at the posting on 1-5-2017, with the color coded Macintosh path name. That is the physical location on your computer. The Virtual Machine software takes that physical location and gives it an alias for referencing purposes.
The last step of installing your Virtual Machine host software was making a "myfolders" folder under a SASUniversityEdition folder. Then, you had to use the disk manager in the Virtual Machine software to define your physical location as always being available. The nickname or alias for that physical location is ALWAYS
/folders/myfolders, whether you are on a Mac or a PC. If I were running a PC, I might have made a folder structure like this:
c:\myApps\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders (windows)
or
d:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders (windows)
or
/usr/SASUniversityEdition/myfolders (Unix/Linux)
or
/Macintosh HD/Users/lee/Documents/SASUniversityEdition/myfolders (Mac)
and no matter what operating system I was using each of the above locations would be referenced as:
/folders/myfolders in SAS University Edition in a Virtual Machine. If you want to store files or load files into a place where SAS can read them, then you would put the file in one of the physical folders outlined above, and that's where you'd look for it. If you run a program like this:
libname saveit '/folders/myfolders';
data saveit.class;
set sashelp.class;
age_in_5yr = age+5;
run;
You should then find a SAS data file called class.sas7bdat in your physical location that you defined as the place where
/folders/myfolders was pointing.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia
