Re: Error during opening a sav file

[Alan Mead]

That's annoying; I'm sorry you're having this trouble.

One of the developers may have a better idea what this error means. It
sounds like a problem with encoding or a bug in PSPP. Of course, it's
possible that the actual problem is unrelated and merely causes this.
They would need to know the version (Help > About) but this might be a
moot point because you're using windows (and they don't use windows). It
isn't possible to type the error exactly, is it? Also, how are you
opening it? Are you double-clicking on the file in windows? Or are you
opening PSPP and using File > Open? If you're using one, you might try
the other.

And I suppose the data is private and cannot be shared? Otherwise, can
you post it?

Have you tried rebooting your computer, restarting PSPP, and then
re-opening the file? I doubt that will fix matters, but it's worth a shot.

You can also try using this service to convert the file to something
like CSV, which would at least recover your work:
https://pspp.benpfaff.org/ This service uses the latest database-reading
routines from PSPP and Ben Pfaff can access files you upload there (*so
DO NOT upload there is the data are very confidential*).

I personally would recommend that you create your file in something like
OpenOffice, then save it as CSV, then read the CSV into PSPP.

-Alan

On 11/20/2019 10:27 AM, Manos Markakis wrote:
> Hello
> I try to open a sav file after i worked with it for 3 hours and when i open 
> it, the database that i had is lost and a message saying error C:/......  
> near offset 0x28f0: invalid variable name '???????' .  What can i do? How can 
> i open the file and most important will i be able to see my database or its 
> gone and i need to do it all over?
>
> Thank you

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