Date:         Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:29:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Mark Casazza <Mark.Casazza@verizon.net>
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From:         Mark Casazza <Mark.Casazza@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Could not recover from save
Comments: To: "R. Allan Reese" <R.A.Reese@GRI.HULL.AC.UK>
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Thank You!

I've been harping on co-workers for years to use different names when saving
a file after making changes.  My own preference has been to make the
original "a" and subsequent versions "b", "c", etc. It's rare I get past 26
versions.  But it is really a pain when you go into a data set expecting a
variable to be coded one way and find that its been recoded into itself with
different values.  It's especially annoying when the recode was a single
use/special purpose transformation that should have been left in syntax (as
an audit trail) and the original data returned to storage the way it was
found.  Needless to say, I've made many personal "back-ups" to "fix" such
problems.

Maybe we should start a thread on best practices.  I'm sure there is
something I could be doing better.

Mark Casazza
home: Mark.Casazza@verizon.net
work: Mark.Casazza@mail.cuny.edu

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."
-Joseph Stalin

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Allan Reese" <R.A.Reese@GRI.HULL.AC.UK>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.spssx-l
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Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: Could not recover from save


<snip>
> Advice: always use "save as" and always "recode into different".  If
> necessary, buy a larger hard disk.  The PC will run better if the
> proportion of free space on the disk remains above (rule of thumb) 20%.
> And I second Raynald's advice on syntax.
>
> R. Allan Reese                       Email: r.a.reese@gri.hull.ac.uk
>
>