Error 105

[Gabby]

Hello All,

I am hoping some can shed some light on this. I searched the archives for
this subject but only found entries around this for someone who was writing
there own syntax which I am not doing.

I've been trying to open a text file (just like I have one hundred and one
times before) and I can't. Thinking that it was perhaps something having do
to do with my machine I sent the .xmlx file, to be converted to .txt to be
read by SPSS (we are running PASW 18) - in short the same chain of events
that I had tried. She came up with the same error message.

The file is a 4x4 of dates in various formats. We are creating an
application for data collection and will be linking it to SPSS so I was
trying to test the format they chose (dd/mm/yyyy) to see if/how it opened. I
also decided to test a couple of other formats as well. I need the dates to
come over as dates from the databases so I can run calculations off of them.

Here is the syntax I got back along with the error message.

GET DATA
  /TYPE=TXT
  /FILE="C:\Documents and Settings\gcb\My Documents\date test 4.txt"
  /DELCASE=LINE
  /DELIMITERS="\t"
  /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED
  /FIRSTCASE=2
  /IMPORTCASE=ALL
  /VARIABLES=
  date1 ADATE10
  date2 DATE11
  date3 ADATE10
  date4 ADATE10
  date5 EDATE10.

>Error.  Command name: GET DATA
>(2269) Failure opening file: C:\Documents and Settings\gcboutemy\My
Documents\date test 4.txt
>Execution of this command stops.
CACHE.
EXECUTE.

>Error # 105.  Command name: EXECUTE
>This command is not valid before a working file has been defined.
>Execution of this command stops.
DATASET NAME DataSet3 WINDOW=FRONT.

Thank you all for you input.

Best,
Gabby

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[Art Kendall]

The syntax says "Settings\gcb\My"

The message says "Settings\gcboutemy\My"

can you find the file without using SPSS? (In Windows it would be Explorer, on a Mac it would be "Find".)

Is the file open in another application?

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants


On 4/3/2012 4:19 PM, Gabby wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am hoping some can shed some light on this. I searched the archives for
> this subject but only found entries around this for someone who was writing
> there own syntax which I am not doing.
>
> I've been trying to open a text file (just like I have one hundred and one
> times before) and I can't. Thinking that it was perhaps something having do
> to do with my machine I sent the .xmlx file, to be converted to .txt to be
> read by SPSS (we are running PASW 18) - in short the same chain of events
> that I had tried. She came up with the same error message.
>
> The file is a 4x4 of dates in various formats. We are creating an
> application for data collection and will be linking it to SPSS so I was
> trying to test the format they chose (dd/mm/yyyy) to see if/how it opened. I
> also decided to test a couple of other formats as well. I need the dates to
> come over as dates from the databases so I can run calculations off of them.
>
> Here is the syntax I got back along with the error message.
>
> GET DATA
>    /TYPE=TXT
>    /FILE="C:\Documents and Settings\gcb\My Documents\date test 4.txt"
>    /DELCASE=LINE
>    /DELIMITERS="\t"
>    /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED
>    /FIRSTCASE=2
>    /IMPORTCASE=ALL
>    /VARIABLES=
>    date1 ADATE10
>    date2 DATE11
>    date3 ADATE10
>    date4 ADATE10
>    date5 EDATE10.
>
>> Error.  Command name: GET DATA
>> (2269) Failure opening file: C:\Documents and Settings\gcboutemy\My
> Documents\date test 4.txt
>> Execution of this command stops.
> CACHE.
> EXECUTE.
>
>> Error # 105.  Command name: EXECUTE
>> This command is not valid before a working file has been defined.
>> Execution of this command stops.
> DATASET NAME DataSet3 WINDOW=FRONT.
>
> Thank you all for you input.
>
> Best,
> Gabby
>
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