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elwayfan446
Barite | Level 11

Hello, 

 

When I perform a proc export to xlsx it is creating a .bak file in the same directory.  Is there a way to prevent this?

 

proc export data=mydataset
dbms=xlsx
outfile="C:\Temp\myexcelfile.xlsx" replace;
sheet="myexcelsheet";
run;
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elwayfan446
Barite | Level 11

Thanks @art297.  I couldn't find anything here with my search of .bak.  Weird.  I guess I will try the fdelete function.  I thought there might be a parameter I was missing in the proc export function.

art297
Opal | Level 21

I rely on Google for most searches. In this case I searched for: proc export sas bak file excel


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elwayfan446
Barite | Level 11

same here.  I just missed that post somehow.  I appreciate the help.

LaurieF
Barite | Level 11

I've thrown in a macro there to clean things up, free gratis and for nothing, which may help.

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