Re: PSPP error message when trying reading a PSPP file or saving it

[Michel Boaventura]

Hello Jose,

I'm sending this mail also to address@hidden
This list is intend to help users with problems like yours.
Could you send the sav file to us?

Thank you,

Michel

2009/3/8 Jose Katzenstein <address@hidden>:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm a new user of the PSPP program (windows version: psppire.exe 0.6.1) and
> as such perhaps making unnecessary mistakes. Yesterday I have tried to
> create a statistic and I have entered all my data into PSPP. After closing
> the application and starting it afterwards, I could not read my file
> anymore. When I try to open the file I get following error message:
>
> PSPP error: "D:\jkt\PSPP-Statistik\fifi4.sav" near offset 0xc04: Variable
> index 2573 not in valid range 1...19.
>
> Now my work is gone and I need to start over again. I'm afraid that this can
> happen again and this is the reason to write to you.
>
> Perhaps someone can tell me how to recover my file or how to prevent this
> again.
>
>
> Another strange behavior is the inability to save the file when I do
> changes. In this case I get following error message:
>
>
>
> PSPP error: Replacing D:\jkt\PSPP-Statistik\fifi4.sav.tmpVU1Cfg by
> D:\jkt\PSPP-Statistik\fifi4.sav: File exists.
>
>
>
> If I delete the file fifi4.sav, I can afterwards save my file.
>
>
>
> I would like to know if this a user or program issue?
>
> I hope to get soon an answer.
>
> Thank you and best regards
> jkt