FW: Trouble with path names

[Jeff Stuewig]

        Perhaps, SPSS or windows XP has some sort of default setting that
will only read in file names of a certain length or doesn't like spaces?
Does anybody know of anything like this?

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:45 PM
> To: Simon Freidin
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Trouble with path names
>
>
> Hi Simon,
>   Thanks.  But there is nothing special about the error
> message.  It is just your run of the mill can't save error
> message because spss is trying to save a file to a path that
> doesn't exist.
>   The syntax you suggest won't replicate the problem because
> it specifies the correct path in the "save" command.  I
> should have specified that when we originally open the file
> we do it through double clicking on the .sav file in the
> "windows explorer" window, not through spss.  But spss will
> sometimes read it in as a truncated path and/or as a
> truncated file name as well.  Then when we try to save it
> (not through syntax) but through clicking on the save icon in
> spss it fails because it is trying to do it using the
> truncated name.  If we do "save as" and paste it pastes the
> truncated path which we can then edit.
>   I should also mention that this whole process doesn't
> happen everytime but it happens enough (and on different
> computers) to be annoying.  I thought perhaps others had seen
> this problem with spss version 12 on windows XP but maybe it
> is just one of those weird computer things.
>
>
>                     Jeff
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon Freidin <[hidden email]>
> Date: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:34 pm
> Subject: Re: Trouble with path names
>
> > You need to post the error message(s)
> >
> > Run this to generate some more info and post the output text to
> > the list:
> >
> > set printback=on.
> > get file="S:\DATAENTRY\Jail\Family and Friends\family friend.sav". n
> > of cases 1. exe.
> > save outfile="S:\DATAENTRY\Jail\Family and Friends\family friend
> > one case.sav".
> > get file="S:\DATAENTRY\Jail\Family and Friends\family friend one
> > case.sav".show n.
> >
> > At 05:17 AM 17/10/2006, you wrote:
> > >         We have been having some troubles with spss reading in
> > > files and changing the path name.
> > > SPSS will then give an error when saving the data
> > > file because it has truncated the path or the data file name or
> > > both.  For instance we may have a file
> > >
> > > S:\DATAENTRY\Jail\Family and Friends\family friend.sav
> > >
> > >         SPSS will read it in as
> > >
> > > S:\DATAENTR\Jail\Family\famil1.sav
> > >
> > >         Then when we try to save it with the tool bar we get an
> > > error because this path does not exist.  Even when we do "save as"
> > > and paste it,
> > > it pastes the truncated path.  Anybody know how to fix this?  We
> > > are using version 12 with windows XP.  Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >         On a completely different note.  Anybody used spss or
> > created syntax
> > >(macro) to compute generalizability coefficients (i.e. Shavelson
> > & Webb,
> > >1991)?
> > >
> > >                 Jeff
> >