Date:         Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:55:23 -0300
Reply-To:     Hector Maletta <hmaletta@fibertel.com.ar>
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From:         Hector Maletta <hmaletta@fibertel.com.ar>
Subject:      Re: Finding SPSS.jnl/ SPSS log
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         To put Kim Marks' advice in the positive: after going to
Edit-Options-General, be sure you set the "Record syntax in journal" option
ON, and also set the Journal option to Append, so that your successive SPSS
sessions will be on record there (otherwise old sessions are overwritten
whenever you start a new session).
         Hector

         -----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Marks, Jim
Sent: 30 July 2007 14:41
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Subject: Re: Finding SPSS.jnl/ SPSS log

         Open SPSS.

         Choose EDIT --> OPTIONS -->GENERAL. On the left-hand side is an
area
         called Session Journal.
         It lists the location of the .jnl file.

         If the choice to "Record syntax in journal" is not selected & the
         "append button is not selected, then you will not have old
operations
         saved into the .jnl file.

         The .jnl file contains actual syntax that has been run-- either
from
         your syntax file or from the GUI. It can be opened with any text
editor.

         --jim

         -----Original Message-----
         From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
Behalf Of
         dnyeboa@mail.med.upenn.edu
         Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:36 AM
         To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
         Subject: Finding SPSS.jnl/ SPSS log

         Thank you all very much for your help and advice! Unfortunately, I
was
         unable to find any files with a .jnl ending using my search option.
I
         also searched for log and journal. I have SPSS 14.0- do you know if
         there is another name it might be under?
         Also is the journal in a format that can be opened by a windows
program
         like notepad? And will it have the code in a format that is similar
to
         syntax? Have any of you used it to retrieve recodings before?

         Debra
         --
         > I'm new to SPSS and I wanted to know if there is a way that SPSS
keeps

         > track
         of
         > what has been done to a variable. I know that you can paste your
         > actions to Syntax and thus save a program. But does any one know
how
         > one might retrieve the programing of a variable is it was not
         initially pasted and saved?
         >
         > Also, how do you find the "log" of your actions in SPSS?