Date:         Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:13:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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From:         Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
Subject:      Re: Can't Save File
Comments: To: james.moffitt@thomson.com
Comments: cc: Albert-jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
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At 04:43 PM 1/10/2007, Jim Moffitt wrote:

>OK. Here's the syntax (edited slightly to obscure the subject of the
>data set).
>
> >SAVE OUTFILE='F:\Everything Else\File Three\Jim As Of
> 7.24.2006\James
>Fil
> >   es\Projects (As of 5.08.2005)\Blah Blah Blah Survey\Data\Working
>Copies\1
> >   .7 Output\Blah Blah-Final Clean
>(EricOriginal10.27.2006)WC3CutDwnBIVCrsC
> >   hngs(11.20)Revise'+
> > 'dVIPsOnly.sav'
> > /COMPRESSED.

And here's the same, but reformatted:

SAVE OUTFILE='F:\Everything Else\File Three\Jim As Of 7.24.2006' +
              '\James Files\Projects (As of 5.08.2005)'           +
              '\Blah Blah Blah Survey\Data\Working Copies'        +
              '\1.7 Output'                                       +
              '\Blah Blah-Final Clean(EricOriginal10.27.2006)'    +
              'WC3CutDwnBIVCrsChngs(11.20)RevisedVIPsOnly.sav'
    /COMPRESSED.

>Here's the error message generated when I click on File > Save:
>
> >Error # 5333.  Command name: SAVE
> >Unable to generate a temporary name to which to save the file.
> >This command not executed.

As Albert-jan Roskam suggested, I think this is a 256-character length
limit. I created a similar directory structure:

C:\Documents and Settings\Richard\My Documents\Temporary\SPSS
   \2007-01-09 Moffitt - Can't Save File\Everything Else\File Three
   \Jim As Of 7.24.2006\James Files\Projects (As of 5.08.2005)
   \Blah Blah Blah Survey\Data\Working Copies\1.7 Output

That path is 238 characters long, including the "C:\" disk designator
and a final "\" to separate it from the file name.

In SPSS 14,
. I can save in that directory under name "Save-16chars.sav" (254
characters, fully qualified);
. "Save---18chars.sav" doesn't work, but doesn't give an error message;
. "Save-------22chars.sav" gives the error message "The above file name
is invalid".