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Bob Schacht-3

Re: Archives

SPSS should be able to read older versions of SPSS data files. Can you give
us the exact text of the error message?

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Bob
Schacht
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:53 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Archives

For at least 7 years, we have been conducting data analysis for a state
agency. We are in the process of organizing our archives in order to make
it possible to perform long-range (i.e., more than one year) studies, etc.
We have converted the original data files into SPSS files as we go along.

However, sometimes when we try to open a file, we get a message referring
to a previous version of SPSS, and wanting to know the old license number
before proceeding. I thought that all older formats were "grandfathered"
and should be available to newer versions, but perhaps I am wrong. Example:
current version is SPSS ver. 16; error message refers to ver. 14 and asks
for the license number. I'm sure we have the license number around
somewhere, but it seems unnecessarily awkward and tedious to have to enter
the license number for so many older files.

What can we do to access the information in our old files?

Bob Schacht

Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]>
Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
1268 Young Street, Suite #204
Research Center, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96814

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Bob Schacht-3

Re: Archives

At 11:10 AM 12/7/2007, ViAnn Beadle wrote:
>SPSS should be able to read older versions of SPSS data files. Can you give
>us the exact text of the error message?

Thanks for your response.
We got the same error, once with an .sav file, and again with an .sps file,
when we tried to open them:
"The current license does not permit this job to continue." The current
license is for SPSS ver. 16

Does that help?

Bob Schacht

Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]>
Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
1268 Young Street, Suite #204
Research Center, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96814

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ViAnn Beadle

Re: Archives

This is a general license failure message. There should be a specific
symptom number in the output to help diagnose it. It has nothing to do with
the specific task at hand.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schacht [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 PM
To: ViAnn Beadle; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Archives

At 11:10 AM 12/7/2007, ViAnn Beadle wrote:
>SPSS should be able to read older versions of SPSS data files. Can you give
>us the exact text of the error message?

Thanks for your response.
We got the same error, once with an .sav file, and again with an .sps file,
when we tried to open them:
"The current license does not permit this job to continue." The current
license is for SPSS ver. 16

Does that help?

Bob Schacht

Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]>
Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
1268 Young Street, Suite #204
Research Center, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96814

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Melissa Ives

Re: Archives

In reply to this post by Bob Schacht-3

Bob.

I recently had a Version 16 license issue where a hotfix was needed to
save the license codes.
Go to where your SPSS 16 is installed and run the showlic.exe.
If this says you have no licenses, then you'll need to run the hotfix as
well.

If you fit the description, then login to the tech support page and
download/run the hotfix.
Specific symptom number: 207
The above error occurs if your "My Documents" directory is located on a
network volume and it is referenced with a UNC path. Hotfixes for SPSS
16.0 and Amos 16.0 have been made available for download from the SPSS
Support website.

For SPSS 16.0:
Choose "SPSS" under "My Product View".
Next, select "Patches", then "SPSS for Windows", and locate "SPSS 16.0
Hotfix for Symptom 207".

Melissa

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
ViAnn Beadle
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:50 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Archives

This is a general license failure message. There should be a specific
symptom number in the output to help diagnose it. It has nothing to do
with the specific task at hand.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schacht [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 PM
To: ViAnn Beadle; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Archives

At 11:10 AM 12/7/2007, ViAnn Beadle wrote:
>SPSS should be able to read older versions of SPSS data files. Can you
>give us the exact text of the error message?

Thanks for your response.
We got the same error, once with an .sav file, and again with an .sps
file, when we tried to open them:
"The current license does not permit this job to continue." The current
license is for SPSS ver. 16

Does that help?

Bob Schacht

Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]> Pacific Basin
Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
1268 Young Street, Suite #204
Research Center, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96814

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Peck, Jon

Re: Archives

In reply to this post by Bob Schacht-3

If you have multiple SPSS versions installed, and you double click a file in the Windows Explorer, which version should launch? That is a basic Windows problem, since only one application can own a file association.

The general behavior in this situation is that the most recently used SPSS version is launched, but that can be controlled by running rereg.bat in the SPSS installation directory.

SPSS 16 works a bit differently on this, but check to see which version of SPSS responded -- assuming that this is how you open the sav file.

Of course, if you start SPSS first and use its File/Open dialog, you won't have this problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Bob Schacht
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Archives

At 11:10 AM 12/7/2007, ViAnn Beadle wrote:
>SPSS should be able to read older versions of SPSS data files. Can you give
>us the exact text of the error message?

Thanks for your response.
We got the same error, once with an .sav file, and again with an .sps file,
when we tried to open them:
"The current license does not permit this job to continue." The current
license is for SPSS ver. 16

Does that help?

Bob Schacht

Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]>
Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
1268 Young Street, Suite #204
Research Center, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96814

=====================
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INFO REFCARD

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Bob Schacht-3

Re: Archives

At 12:35 PM 12/7/2007, Peck, Jon wrote:

>If you have multiple SPSS versions installed, and you double click a file
>in the Windows Explorer, which version should launch? That is a basic
>Windows problem, since only one application can own a file association.
>
>The general behavior in this situation is that the most recently used SPSS
>version is launched, but that can be controlled by running rereg.bat in
>the SPSS installation directory.
>
>SPSS 16 works a bit differently on this, but check to see which version of
>SPSS responded -- assuming that this is how you open the sav file.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
>Bob Schacht
>Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Archives
>
>At 11:10 AM 12/7/2007, ViAnn Beadle wrote:
> >SPSS should be able to read older versions of SPSS data files. Can you give
> >us the exact text of the error message?
>
>Thanks for your response.
>We got the same error, once with an .sav file, and again with an .sps file,
>when we tried to open them:
>"The current license does not permit this job to continue." The current
>license is for SPSS ver. 16
>
>Does that help?
>
>Bob Schacht
>
>
>
>
>Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. <[hidden email]>
>Pacific Basin Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
>1268 Young Street, Suite #204
>Research Center, University of Hawaii
>Honolulu, HI 96814
>
>=====================
>To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to
>[hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the
>command. To leave the list, send the command
>SIGNOFF SPSSX-L
>For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command
>INFO REFCARD

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Peck, Jon

Re: Archives

If you modify the file associations, SPSS 16 will come up from the Explorer. If you run an older version, it will reclaim the association, but it sounds like you will only be using 16, so a one-time change will do.

Regards,
Jon Peck

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schacht [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 4:58 PM
To: Peck, Jon; [hidden email]
Subject: RE: Re: [SPSSX-L] Archives

At 12:35 PM 12/7/2007, Peck, Jon wrote:

Bingo! Excellent guess! I did not realize that the computer in question had
two versions running, one being ver. 14 (expired), and the other being ver.
16. Before seeing your message, my solution was to modify the Windows
associations table so that it points to ver. 16 rather than ver. 14. Will
this work adequately, or is it better to run rereg.bat anyway?

>Of course, if you start SPSS first and use its File/Open dialog, you won't
>have this problem.

Exactly.

Thanks for your assistance.
Bob

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