George,

SAS note SN-007832 seems to speak to the problem you described. It links to a Microsoft knowledgebase article that addresses the inability to clear the read-only folder attribute.

HTH.

Bob Schwartz IT Specialist National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA USA

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of George Grabowski Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:16 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: ERROR: User does not have appropriate...

Hi Folks,

I have a Gateway PC running Windows XP-Pro and recentlly updated my licences for SAS v. 8 and I'm having problems. AFTER the update a problem appeared! I can create new "active library" folders, but I can't import files into them.

I receive the following message : "ERROR: User does not have appropriate authorization level for library SUICIDE. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. "

I am able to import data files into the WORK folder and run SAS programs there. It's the new library folders that are haveing problems.

It's not a hardware problem. SAS says it is a Windows problem. I have gone through and made certain I/administrator has full access. Something interesting I noticed...several subdirectories initially had "read-only access" I unmarked it hit 'apply' and 'ok' then reboot the computer, NONE of my changes were saved and the directories are still "read-only access" !

Is there anyone who can help!? Many thanks in advance, And I'll post what worked and what didn't work. George