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4 years 1 month ago - 4 years 1 month ago #193829 by sergioquerido
(2269) Failure opening file SPSS 26 was created by sergioquerido
I am trying to run sintax to run database in SPSS but i am always getting the next error information:


>Error. Command name: GET DATA
>(2269) Failure opening file: /Users/sergioquerido/Desktop/survey_fpf.dat
>Execution of this command stops.
CACHE.
EXECUTE.

>Error # 105. Command name: EXECUTE
>This command is not valid before a working file has been defined.
>Execution of this command stops.
*Define Variable Properties.
VARIABLE LABELS V1 "id".

>Error # 100. Command name: VARIABLE LABELS
>This command is not permitted before the beginning of file definition
>commands.
>Execution of this command stops.
VARIABLE LABELS V2 "submitdate".
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4 years 1 month ago - 4 years 1 month ago #193830 by jelo
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The Path to the file is not set correctly.
>(2269) Failure opening file: /Users/sergioquerido/Desktop/survey_fpf.dat

So you need to set a complete path to the file to ensure that the data is available to SPSS. There is not a LimeSurvey issue.

If there are additional issues after setting a correct path please provide the exact version of LimeSurvey.

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4 years 1 month ago - 4 years 1 month ago #193832 by sergioquerido
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The path to the file is complete. I am using a macbook.
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4 years 1 month ago #193833 by sergioquerido
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Versão 3.18.0+190923
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4 years 1 month ago #193834 by jelo
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sergioquerido wrote: The path to the file is complete. I am using a macbook.


I don't see how a LimeSurvey forum can support you, when the SPSS error message is "(2269) Failure opening file: /Users/sergioquerido/Desktop/survey_fpf.dat"

The SPSS forums are here developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics/forums/

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4 years 1 month ago #193835 by sergioquerido
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Thank you very much for your useful solution.
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4 years 1 month ago #193894 by cdorin
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Try to import your .lsa file to a free instance (to use the latest LTS version) and export again via SPSS to see if there are issues. Though I believe it s a SPSS issue (not aware of such SPSS issues in LimeSurvey)

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4 years 1 month ago #193897 by holch
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Cdorin, this problem is most probably related to the wrong path entered by the user. This happens a lot. People do not adapt the path correctly and SPSS is complaining about it.

I am 99,9% sure that this has nothing to do with the Limesurvey export, but rather the wrong path to the file. I am no expert on this, but it seems like SPSS requires that you adapt a path in the files, just as Jelo highlights.

And the error message is clearly indicating this.

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