Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:46:08 -0600
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From: "Marks, Jim" <Jim.Marks@lodgenet.com>
Subject: Re: data backup??
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Depending on settings, you might be able to recover the syntax that SPSS
used to perform the analysis, and redo the work. This is possible even
if you used the GUI to conduct your analysis.
SPSS creates a .jnl file that stores all the commands run. You can find
the location under
Edit-->
Options -->
General -- Session Journal.
Hopefully append is selected. (Overwrite creates a new file each time
you restart, I think)
This requires your original data file saved in a different file the one
you analysed.
Anything done directly in the GUI (e.g. adding/ deleting variables,
editing data values, updating value labels or variable labels) is not
recorded in the journal
Reading the journal can be confusing (especially if you used muliple
sessions of SPSS).
Good luck
--jim
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Whanger, J. Mr. CTR
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:42 PM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: data backup??
I can empathize, but don't know a solution. I lost an entire day of work
this week because a file I know without question I saved, disappeared.
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Adam Maltese
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:58 PM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: data backup??
Good afternoon! I just was finishing up work on cleaning up a data set
of college transcript records. For some unknown reason, SPSS started
telling me that I couldn't save or made any more edits to the copy I was
working on. I tried a Save As, and that didn't work either. At this
point I've lost the last 4 days of (very tedious) work. Does anyone know
if SPSS saves temporary or backup files in some hidden location that I
might be able to "restore"
to?
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
Adam
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