FW: Error #1405

[Maguin, Eugene]

Forwarded on behalf of Sydelle Raffe

I'm sure have done this but thought I'd mention it anyway.

You've looked in your C drive in the appropriate folder. Is the file there?
Have you compared the file name in the directory to  your syntax to see that
they are spelled the same?



-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Gene Maguin
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 12:24 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Error #1405

Lmondo,

I don't know what is wrong. I took a text file, changed the extension to
'sav', and tried to open it with the file -> open data rather than file ->
read text data and discovered that spss determined the file to be 'text' and
switched to the read text data wizard. Salute to spss for that piece of
work.

Perhaps you know that you open a file with notepad. The top line identifies
a spss data file as such. That would be a check.

I'd like to suggest two last ideas. First, I think you can go the spss
website and access their 'knowledge base' and search on 'error 1405' or
'1405' (username/password access). You might find something there.

Second, I never put things on the desktop but the directory string to my
desktop is

C:\Documents and Settings\emaguin\Desktop

Perhaps your computer is set up different. We are on XP and there is a user
name directory between 'documents and settings' and 'desktop'. Last straw,
move the file off the desktop to a directory on either C:\ or your server.
If that fails, the only thing I can think to do is to remake the file.

Sorry, Gene Maguin


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
lmondo
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 2:26 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Error #1405

Hi Gene,

My responses are in CAPS below...

Is it possible that the apostrophes or quotes around the file location
string were omitted? NO

Is it possible the file has an 'sav' extension but is not an spss data
format file? (I assume that you can see the extension.)  NO

Have you tried to open the file via the menu system (file-->Open data)? Did
the open fail? What was the error message?  YES, SAME ERROR MESSAGE (SEE
BELOW)

GET
  FILE='C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\newdatafile.sav'.

>Error # 1405 in column 8.  Text: C:\Documents and
Settings\Desktop\newdatafile.sav
>Error when attempting to get a data file.
>This command not executed.

If you can open the file vis the menu system, then, I think, the only
possibility is that the get data file location string has an error in it.
Have you check the file location string against the file directory listing
in explorer? NOT SURE HOW TO DO THIS



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[John F Hall]

What's actually in the *.txt  file?  Is it a file of raw data or something else?  If it's raw data you may need to use the data list command.  Default is fixed format integers, if not you need to specify the format as well.

 

data list file  '<filename>' /records <number of records>

    / <varname1> etc.

 

If you send me the first few lines of the text file and some indication of what the data are I may be able to help more.

 

John Hall
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http://surveyresearch.weebly.com

 

 

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Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:03 PM

Subject: FW: Error #1405

Forwarded on behalf of Sydelle Raffe

I'm sure have done this but thought I'd mention it anyway.

You've looked in your C drive in the appropriate folder. Is the file there?
Have you compared the file name in the directory to  your syntax to see that
they are spelled the same?



-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Gene Maguin
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 12:24 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Error #1405

Lmondo,

I don't know what is wrong. I took a text file, changed the extension to
'sav', and tried to open it with the file -> open data rather than file ->
read text data and discovered that spss determined the file to be 'text' and
switched to the read text data wizard. Salute to spss for that piece of
work.

Perhaps you know that you open a file with notepad. The top line identifies
a spss data file as such. That would be a check.

I'd like to suggest two last ideas. First, I think you can go the spss
website and access their 'knowledge base' and search on 'error 1405' or
'1405' (username/password access). You might find something there.

Second, I never put things on the desktop but the directory string to my
desktop is

C:\Documents and Settings\emaguin\Desktop

Perhaps your computer is set up different. We are on XP and there is a user
name directory between 'documents and settings' and 'desktop'. Last straw,
move the file off the desktop to a directory on either C:\ or your server.
If that fails, the only thing I can think to do is to remake the file.

Sorry, Gene Maguin


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
lmondo
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 2:26 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Error #1405

Hi Gene,

My responses are in CAPS below...

Is it possible that the apostrophes or quotes around the file location
string were omitted? NO

Is it possible the file has an 'sav' extension but is not an spss data
format file? (I assume that you can see the extension.)  NO

Have you tried to open the file via the menu system (file-->Open data)? Did
the open fail? What was the error message?  YES, SAME ERROR MESSAGE (SEE
BELOW)

GET
  FILE='C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\newdatafile.sav'.

>Error # 1405 in column 8.  Text: C:\Documents and
Settings\Desktop\newdatafile.sav
>Error when attempting to get a data file.
>This command not executed.

If you can open the file vis the menu system, then, I think, the only
possibility is that the get data file location string has an error in it.
Have you check the file location string against the file directory listing
in explorer? NOT SURE HOW TO DO THIS



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