Date:         Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:12:29 +0200
Reply-To:     Marta García-Granero
              <biostatistics@terra.es>
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From:         Marta García-Granero
              <biostatistics@terra.es>
Organization: Asesoría Bioestadística
Subject:      Re: Double save data file
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Hi Ralph,

RG> Does anyone know of an add-in to SPSS that permits a one-click save to two
RG> different file locations? Wordtoys (_www.wordtoys.com_
RG> (http://www.wordtoys.com) ) has a great add-in program  for
RG> MS Word that does this and far more. I am
RG> constantly saving data files to  two locations for back-up purposes and really
RG> need a toolbar feature to  do this.

I don't know of any toolbar feature, but you could use MACRO for that.
The following code is untested, but should work:

DEFINE !SAVE2(!POS=!TOKENS(1)).
* Location #1 is C:\My Documents\ *.
!LET !loc1=!CONCAT(!UNQUOTE('C:\My Documents\'),!1,!UNQUOTE('.sav')).
SAVE OUTFILE=!loc1.
* Location #2 is D:\Backup\ *.
!LET !loc2=!CONCAT(!UNQUOTE('D:\Backup\'),!1,!UNQUOTE('.sav')).
SAVE OUTFILE=!loc2.
!ENDDEFINE.

* MACRO call*.
!SAVE2 myfile.

Regards,
 Marta                            mailto:biostatistics@terra.es