Re: save translate error

[Alan Mead]

FWIW, I've run into trouble like this when there are spaces in Windows
paths.  It looks like FTR's path doesn't have a space but does Windows
actually have a folder named "Documents"?  When I run the code below (on
the example hotels.sav) and then look in "My Documents" (not "Documents"
although it's there too) I see the test data (so this works for me).

save translate
/outfile ="C:\Users\amead\Documents\test_data.csv"
/type = csv
/fieldnames
/cells = values
/keep v3 v1 to v2.

But this code produces FTR's error:

save translate
/outfile ="C:\Users\amead\My Documents\test_data.csv"
/type = csv
/fieldnames
/cells = values
/keep v3 v1 to v2.

So, again, FWIW...

-Alan


On 1/14/2015 1:47 AM, Alberto Cabello Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:13:29 -0800
> Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> The error message says (translated from the French text):
>>> Creating temporary file resulted in error  (file name): No such file or
>>> directory.
>> Usually, in creating a file, "No such file or directory" means that the
>> directory does not exist.  So, the most likely problem here seems to be
>> that the name of the directory is misspelled.  Could you make really
>> sure that it is correct?
>>
>>> Error when opening
>>> C:\Users\ftr\Documents\data\EVS-WVS\WVS5Europetrustvars.csv" when writing as
>>> a system file: success.
>> This message seems like a genuine bug, but I cannot see how it would
>> happen.  I cannot reproduce it locally (on GNU/Linux), even when I
>> specify the name of a nonexistent directory as part of the outfile.
> Could it be a privileges issue (e. g. no writing permission on a folder
> in the file path)?
>
> Also, it seems "almost OK": it raises an error but then displays "success",
> but still an error (as the file is not created). Double-checking the Windows
> behaviour regarding this code
>
>   /* Create the file on disk. */
>   w->rf = replace_file_start (fh_get_file_name (fh), "w", 0666,
>                               &w->file, NULL);
>   if (w->rf == NULL)
>     {
>       msg (ME, _("Error opening `%s' for writing as a system file: %s."),
>            fh_get_file_name (fh), strerror (errno));
>       goto error;
>     }
>
>
> should be helpful.
>

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