It's not entirely clear to me how/why your getting this message.
Previously in v15 if you had a file open and you opened up the same file
again, you could do this without any warning message, it would simply pick
up the last saved version of that file.
However if you do this in version 17 you get warning message.
Open a new instance of spss17 and step through the commands below.
*no warning should appear*.
GET FILE='C:\Program Files\SPSSInc\Statistics17\Samples\English\employee
data.sav'.
*warning should appear as you already have the data open*.
GET FILE='C:\Program Files\SPSSInc\Statistics17\Samples\English\employee
data.sav'.
*fix*.
DATASET CLOSE ALL.
NEW FILE.
GET FILE='C:\Program Files\SPSSInc\Statistics17\Samples\English\employee
data.sav'.
HTH,
Jigs
2008/12/18 Marks, Jim <
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> I just installed SPSS v17 (version 15 is also installed).
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> When I open the last file I worked on v15, I get a warning about file in
> use
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> "the document is already in use by another user or process. If you make
> changes to the document they may overwrite changes made by others or
> your changes may be overwritten by others.
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> Do you want to continue?"
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> I've rebooted the system x3, tried using "SAVE AS" to rename the file,
> and renamed the file from the Windows explorer.
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> The file does open with v15
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> I can open other files with v17.
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> Any explanations/ fixes?
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> --jim
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