The way it works 100% in SAS studio, no matter the operating system, is through the "Upload" wizard. The wizard creates a temporary location for the file on your drive, which has the same name as your file, i.e., cars_novname.csv That is not your actual file, but only an importing code. Copy from that code: the PROC IMPORT and the PROC CONTENTS Replace the name "REFFILE" with the path listed under FILENAME in the importing code. You may want to replace the directory WORK with a permanent location (library) at your choice and the table name IMPORT with a name of your choice, i.e., cars_nov. Also, check the columns of the created "cars_nov.sas7bdat" to see if all characters and numbers are displayed correctly. If the format in some columns is not what you want, you can copy and transform the log of the import procedure for generating different formats. A video I found useful for all these steps is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfBvLyyQjs. Good luck!
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