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concernedRock
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi all!

 

I've been trying to open a file for the past hour, and it's driving me crazy.  I have a file called 'temp3.txt' with the address

 

'C:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders\temp3.txt'

 

and I tried to use the inline command to open this in SAS UE with the '/folders/myfolders/...' path:

 

DATA temp3;
	infile '/folders/myfolders/temp3.txt';
	input subj 1-4 gender 6 height 8-9 weight 11-13;
RUN;
PROC PRINT data = temp3;
	title 'Output dataset: TEMP3';
RUN;

But I when I run this code, I get an error message saying

 

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
55
56 DATA temp3;
57 infile '/folders/myfolders/temp3.txt';
58 input subj 1-4 gender 6 height 8-9 weight 11-13;
59 RUN;
 
ERROR: Physical file does not exist, /folders/myfolders/temp3.txt.

 

 

What am I doing wrong?

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Reeza
Super User

Probably don't need to reinstall. Myfolders is all lower case? Set up in VM? 

Try restarting VM?

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Reeza
Super User

1. Double check that your myfolders is set up properly. If the following runs correctly it is. 

Libname test '/folders/myfolders'
Reeza
Super User

2. Make sure your file is properly referenced - it is case sensitive. 

Sorry about two posts. Slight issue posting

 

 

concernedRock
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you for the reply.  When I run your code, it does give me an error saying "Libref TEST is not assigned".

However, I checked my virtual machine setting:

 

1) Shared Folders is set to "Enabled", and

 

2) The host path "C:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders" is added under the name "myfolders" (in "Folder sharing" tab).

 

Yet it still does not work.  Do you think I should just re-install the program?

Reeza
Super User

Probably don't need to reinstall. Myfolders is all lower case? Set up in VM? 

Try restarting VM?

concernedRock
Fluorite | Level 6

It started working after I restarted the VM twice.  Wow, thank you so much!  🙂

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