SAS Crashes while running PROC Contents or PROC Datasets

[nikhila1990]

I'm trying to run the following code in order to get the list of variable names and other attributes.

proc contents data  <libname.datasetname>;

run;

OR

proc datasets library = <libname>;

contents data = <datasetname>;

run;

These codes work fine if the datasets are in the work folder. However, if the data sets are in a library other than the work library, SAS stops working. I get an error - sas.exe has stopped working  - a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

I tried deleting the library and creating a new one. Restarting SAS, and restarting my laptop did not work either. I use SAS 9.4. Any help to resolve this issue would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Nikhila

[Rick_SAS]

Any crash should be reported to SAS Technical Support.. In this case, it sounds like the software was not installed correctly.