Mysterious and recurring error message(s)

[LaurenceMoseley]

I have recently started to receive over and over again the error message

 

Warning # 4477.  Command name: VALUE LABELS >Undefined error #4477 - Cannot open text file "C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SPSS\STATIS~1\20\lang\en\spss.err": No such file or directory

 

It does not always have the same error number. Today the same message occurred but with error numbers  4477 4480 67 701 4816 4810 703 485 4050 4070 4461 and it occurred in a variety of contexts such as

 

COMPUTE, MISSING VALUES, VAR LABELS, DO IF END IF

 

The message always ends with the warning “This command not executed”.

 

How do I get around the problem that this creates?

 

I’ve looked in the relevant directory and it contains plenty of files but NOT spss.err. Can that file be downloaded separately?

 

With thanks and best wishes

 

Laurie

8^th April 2013

 

I’m using SPSS 20, running under Windows 7, and with 16Gb of RAM.

 

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[David Marso]

Options:
1.  Reinstall SPSS?
2.  Locate another copy of this file and copy it to the relevant folder.
3.  ?
On ver 21:  I located SPSS.err in the location you posted, so it must have been clobbered on your system.

LaurenceMoseley wrote

I have recently started to receive over and over again the error message



Warning # 4477.  Command name: VALUE LABELS >Undefined error #4477 - Cannot
open text file "C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SPSS\STATIS~1\20\lang\en\spss.err": No such
file or directory



It does not always have the same error number. Today the same message
occurred but with error numbers  4477 4480 67 701 4816 4810 703 485 4050
4070 4461 and it occurred in a variety of contexts such as



COMPUTE, MISSING VALUES, VAR LABELS, DO IF END IF



The message always ends with the warning "This command not executed".



How do I get around the problem that this creates?



I've looked in the relevant directory and it contains plenty of files but
NOT spss.err. Can that file be downloaded separately?



With thanks and best wishes



Laurie

8th April 2013



I'm using SPSS 20, running under Windows 7, and with 16Gb of RAM.



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[Jon K Peck]

That is not a good sign.  Something about your Statistics installation is corrupted, so there might be other damage as well.  spss.err is not available separately, but you might try Control Panel > Add Remove Programs.  Select IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and choose Repair.


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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I have recently started to receive over and over again the error message
 
Warning # 4477.  Command name: VALUE LABELS >Undefined error #4477 - Cannot open text file "C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SPSS\STATIS~1\20\lang\en\spss.err": No such file or directory
 
It does not always have the same error number. Today the same message occurred but with error numbers  4477 4480 67 701 4816 4810 703 485 4050 4070 4461 and it occurred in a variety of contexts such as
 
COMPUTE, MISSING VALUES, VAR LABELS, DO IF END IF
 
The message always ends with the warning “This command not executed”.
 
How do I get around the problem that this creates?
 
I’ve looked in the relevant directory and it contains plenty of files but NOT spss.err. Can that file be downloaded separately?
 
With thanks and best wishes
 
Laurie
8^th April 2013
 
I’m using SPSS 20, running under Windows 7, and with 16Gb of RAM.
 
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