Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error

[Alan Mead]

Given the errors you had with Greek characters in your dataset, you
could try creating a directory using only ASCII and see if that works
better.

It might be easiest to do this on a USB drive (because renaming your
user directory seems infeasibly difficult). So you would plug in a USB
drive and make a folder like 'pspp' so maybe that would be "E:\pspp" and
try to save there.

Even if that works, that's still pretty annoying and should be fixed if
possible.

-Alan

On 11/24/2019 1:56 PM, Alan Mead wrote:
> That's really annoying. I don't know what else to suggest because it
> works for me.
>
> -Alan
>
> On 11/24/2019 1:43 PM, Manos Markakis wrote:
>> i use GNU pspp 1.2.0-g0fb4db on windows 10. i know that the file i
>> want to put it in is writtable because i also put other things there
>> and also tried to save it somewhere else.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Alan Mead <address@hidden>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 24, 2019 9:07 PM
>> *To:* Manos Markakis <address@hidden>; address@hidden
>> <address@hidden>
>> *Subject:* Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error
>>  
>> Manos,
>>
>> When you select Help > About, what version does it say? Because I
>> cannot replicate your error.
>>
>> When I use GNU pspp 1.2.0-g0fb4db on Windows 7, I run scatterplot.
>> Select export, select PDF, choose a filename ("filename"), navigate to
>> "C:\Users\Amead\Google Drive\Active" (because my filesystem is
>> different) and click save, it saves. There's no error.
>>
>> I do get an error if I skip navigating to a writable directory. The
>> default is "C:\Windows\system32" which is not writable and I get:
>>
>> error: error opening output file `C:\Windows\system32\filename.pdf':
>> error while writing to output stream
>>
>> So, I'm unable to replicate your problem, except when I pick an
>> unwriteable folder. Are you sure you have permission to write to
>> "C:\Users\Myname\Onedrive\MyPC\the name of the folder i want\"? And
>> that "data.pdf" is not write protected?
>>
>> For example, using some sync software on Windows, I occasionally get
>> errors if I write a file and then try to access it immediately,
>> because the sync software has the file open to sync to the cloud.
>>
>> But the bottom line is that I don't know why you cannot write that
>> file. I cannot rule out a bug in PSPP, but googling that error (the
>> one I got, which I'm assuming is the one you are getting) suggests
>> that many different users using many different kinds of software
>> encounter this kind of error.
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>>
>> On 11/24/2019 12:40 PM, Manos Markakis wrote:
>>> ok so i press export after i finished. i name the file choose the
>>> folder i want it to be put and then i choose the format that i want
>>> it to be read, so i choose pdf. i press save and the error says:
>>> error opening output file C:\Users\Myname\Onedrive\MyPC\the name of
>>> the folder i want\data.pdf: error while writing to output stream
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* Alan Mead <address@hidden> <mailto:address@hidden>
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 24, 2019 8:32 PM
>>> *To:* Manos Markakis <address@hidden>
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>; address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden> <address@hidden>
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>
>>> *Subject:* Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error
>>>  
>>> Manos,
>>>
>>> As a guess, you are trying to write to a directory for which you do
>>> do have write permission.
>>>
>>> To help you further, we need you to fully describe your problem, with
>>> step-by-step instructions for replicating the problem. We also need
>>> the exact error message, including the directory names.
>>>
>>> -Alan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/24/2019 9:40 AM, Manos Markakis wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem. When Im done making the graphs I want, I try to save 
>>>> them but they won't save and this error comes up: error opening output 
>>>> file C/....error while writing to output stream. I don't know what to do. 
>>>> I tried to save them via the print option but still they won't open.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
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>> -- 
>>
>> Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
>> President, Talent Algorithms Inc.
>>
>> science + technology = better workers
>>
>> http://www.alanmead.org
>>
>> "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
>> invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,
>> write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone,
>> comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate,
>> act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
>> manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
>> efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for 
>> insects."
>>
>> -- Robert A. Heinlein

-- 

Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
President, Talent Algorithms Inc.

science + technology = better workers

http://www.alanmead.org

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,
write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone,
comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate,
act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for 
insects."

-- Robert A. Heinlein