Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error

[Manos Markakis]

IT WORKS. thank you very much. i plugged my external SSD and it works properly. 
I dont find that too annoying though. Thanks again
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From: Alan Mead <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2019 10:38 PM
To: Manos Markakis <address@hidden>; address@hidden <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error

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.
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*Sent:* Sunday, November 24, 2019 9:07 PM
*To:* Manos Markakis <address@hidden><mailto:address@hidden>; 
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*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
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*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