SAS Data Does Not Exist

[Alass006]

Hello there,

I have a question. I have never experienced that before. I am running a proc contents on a data saved in a library SAS enterprise guide 7.1. Although the data file exists, there is a message saying ERROR: File STUDATA.SDFDATA17.DATA does not exist. Any inputs?

%Let Qdrive=\\dcwdfap002\rp;
libname studata "&Qdrive.\\Ps\Lv\forensics\LA\S17EOC\RPU\Cyc";

options dkricond=nowarning;
proc contents data=studata.sdfdata17; run;

Thanks and regards

[PaigeMiller]

What makes you say "although the data file exists"?? Did you check? How? Be specific. Show us a screen capture.

In cases like this, where SAS says it's not there, I tend to believe SAS, and not the human users, since all humans make mistakes from time to time.

[Astounding]

Is this really the right path to the folder?  The number of slashes looks suspicious:

\\dcwdfap002\rp\\Ps\Lv\forensics\LA\S17EOC\RPU\Cyc

What did the SAS log say about the LIBNAME statement?

[Reeza]

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@Astounding wrote:

Is this really the right path to the folder?  The number of slashes looks suspicious:

\\dcwdfap002\rp\\Ps\Lv\forensics\LA\S17EOC\RPU\Cyc

What did the SAS log say about the LIBNAME statement?

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SAS ignores duplicate slashes later on in the path, not sure why, but it definitely does sometimes. 

 69         libname test '/folders//myfolders//';
 NOTE: Libref TEST was successfully assigned as follows: 
       Engine:        V9 
       Physical Name: /folders//myfolders