Searching for .SPS files containing specific strings under Vista64 Ultimate

[Art Kendall]

This type of problem came up before under Windows XP.  The archives has
ways to tweak XP so that the search function would look within .SPS files.
Evidently XP had some kind of default so that it only looked for strings
in certain file type.

Has anyone come across a way to tweak Vista 64 ultimate so that the
search will find files that contain specific strings?

For example I might want to look for "factor" in abc*.sps


Art Kendall
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[Oliver, Richard]

I don't know about the XP UI search, but findstr from a command line works fine in XP. Does Vista support anything like that?

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Subject: Searching for .SPS files containing specific strings under Vista64 Ultimate

This type of problem came up before under Windows XP.  The archives has
ways to tweak XP so that the search function would look within .SPS files.
Evidently XP had some kind of default so that it only looked for strings
in certain file type.

Has anyone come across a way to tweak Vista 64 ultimate so that the
search will find files that contain specific strings?

For example I might want to look for "factor" in abc*.sps


Art Kendall
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[Art Kendall]

*The contents of many files types within which SPSS users would want to
search for specific strings are NOT indexed by default in VISTA.
*
Users (at least those with administrator privileges) can change which
file types are indexed only by file name and which file types are
indexed both by file name and by contents.

*Navigate to the top level of what you want to index.*
One way to do this is:
click <start>
click <computer>
click icon of disk you want to change indexing for
  / you might want to click <documents> if you don't want to change the
defaults for the whole disk

/*Start the Search process.
*type anything into the search box e.g., "ABCDEFG"
click <search tools>
click <modify index location>
click <advanced>
you may have to click <continue> on a security pop-up
click <file types>
verify that the file types you are interested in say "plain text
filter"  if they don't
click <Index file properties and contents>
/I changed .sav .sps .spo .spv . tab and .sas7bdat to "plain text filter"/
when done specifying file types
click <OK>
WAIT A LONG TIME until the message "Indexing complete" appears at the
top of the pane
click <close>

verify that search finds  files that you know contain a specific string.

Art Kendall
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Art Kendall wrote:

> This type of problem came up before under Windows XP.  The archives has
> ways to tweak XP so that the search function would look within .SPS
> files.
> Evidently XP had some kind of default so that it only looked for strings
> in certain file type.
>
> Has anyone come across a way to tweak Vista 64 ultimate so that the
> search will find files that contain specific strings?
>
> For example I might want to look for "factor" in abc*.sps
>
>
> Art Kendall
> Social Research Consultants
>
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[Kornbrot, Diana]

HELP
I need to get the parameter estimates from GLM into a spreadsheet
ALL the other Tables in the op, eg F-tables can be simply copied and pasted
BUT parameter estimates seem to be copued as a [blank] picture
Similarly, EXPORT to excel simply omitted the parameter estimate table, must
think its a picture
I am desperate & have a deadline to meet
Please, please, please can anyone help

[what I think about the SPSS MAC team is not suitable for polite society]

Best

diana
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[Ian Martin-2]

Hi Diana,

I have found that copy/paste in mac V.16.0.2 is dependent upon the
version of Excel.  The older (Office X, Service Release 1) version of
Excel will not reliably accept pasted tables from the V. 16.0.2 SPSS.

I have just tested copy/paste of GLM parameter estimates table (and
other GLM output tables) from V.16.0.2 into Excel V.11.3.5 (MS Excel
2004 for Mac) and it appears to work fine.

The other possible cause -- something I have noted earlier -- is that
keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste (command-c, command-v) do not work
reliably.  Try using the Edit menu commands instead.

(If all else fails, contact me off list and I will try to do it at
this end and send it back to you.)

regards,
Ian.
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On 23 May, 2008, at 10:28 AM, kornbrot wrote:

> HELP
> I need to get the parameter estimates from GLM into a spreadsheet
> ALL the other Tables in the op, eg F-tables can be simply copied
> and pasted
> BUT parameter estimates seem to be copued as a [blank] picture
> Similarly, EXPORT to excel simply omitted the parameter estimate
> table, must
> think its a picture
> I am desperate & have a deadline to meet
> Please, please, please can anyone help
>
> [what I think about the SPSS MAC team is not suitable for polite
> society]
>
> Best
>
> diana
> Professor Diana Kornbrot
>  School of Psychology
>  University of Hertfordshire
>  College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK
>
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> Home
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[Kornbrot, Diana]

Hi Ian

Thanks a MILLION. Solved!!!!!
Its all fixed in SPSS 16.0.2
Hadn¹t updated from 16.0.1
It was an SPSS problem, NOT an EXCEL problem

Maybe in the next patch they¹ll implement an automatic check for updates.

Now all set to reocup the 4 hours I wasted

Happy week-end

Best

Diana

On 23/5/08 15:59, "Ian Martin" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Diana,
>
> I have found that copy/paste in mac V.16.0.2 is dependent upon the
> version of Excel.  The older (Office X, Service Release 1) version of
> Excel will not reliably accept pasted tables from the V. 16.0.2 SPSS.
>
> I have just tested copy/paste of GLM parameter estimates table (and
> other GLM output tables) from V.16.0.2 into Excel V.11.3.5 (MS Excel
> 2004 for Mac) and it appears to work fine.
>
> The other possible cause -- something I have noted earlier -- is that
> keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste (command-c, command-v) do not work
> reliably.  Try using the Edit menu commands instead.
>
> (If all else fails, contact me off list and I will try to do it at
> this end and send it back to you.)
>
> regards,
> Ian.
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | Ian D. Martin, Ph.D.
> | Stream Ecologist, Statistical Analyst, Environmental Consultant
> | email: [hidden email]
> | voice: 519-846-8448
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>
>
>
> On 23 May, 2008, at 10:28 AM, kornbrot wrote:
>
>> > HELP
>> > I need to get the parameter estimates from GLM into a spreadsheet
>> > ALL the other Tables in the op, eg F-tables can be simply copied
>> > and pasted
>> > BUT parameter estimates seem to be copued as a [blank] picture
>> > Similarly, EXPORT to excel simply omitted the parameter estimate
>> > table, must
>> > think its a picture
>> > I am desperate & have a deadline to meet
>> > Please, please, please can anyone help
>> >
>> > [what I think about the SPSS MAC team is not suitable for polite
>> > society]
>> >
>> > Best
>> >
>> > diana
>> > Professor Diana Kornbrot
>> >  School of Psychology
>> >  University of Hertfordshire
>> >  College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK
>> >
>> >  email:  [hidden email]
>> >  web:    http://web.mac.com/kornbrot/iweb/KornbrotHome.html
>> >  voice:   [phone]
>> >  fax:      [phone]
>> > Home
>> >  19 Elmhurst Avenue
>> >  London N2 0LT, UK
>> >
>> >     voice:   [phone]
>> >     mobile: [phone]
>> >     fax:      [phone]
>> >
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>> > command. To leave the list, send the command
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>

Professor Diana Kornbrot
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 University of Hertfordshire
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