But even if sas will use it w/out complaining, it is going to be suspect, isn't it?

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gerhard Hellriegel Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:44 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Large datastep interrupted, have a large data1.sas7bdat.lck file - any way to convert to usable data?

Try to rename it by removing the .lck and have a look into the dir window of the library. Maybe the dataset is usable. If not, try to repair it with proc datasets. Gerhard

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:04:03 -0000, kvasikonkav@GMAIL.COM wrote:

>I was running a job on a server, and the server was rebooted. > >Consequently, I have a partially completed datafile, which has the >suffix .sas7bdat.lck > >The ".lck" file is a 225,000,000kb file (I think that is 225gb, >right?) > >SAS was nearly done processing a datastep when the server was rebooted.

>My understanding is that the ".lck" extension is sort of a temporary >dataset that will later be renamed once the datastep is fully finished. > >I don't want to wait another 4 days for the program to run again, so I >was hoping the nearly complete ".lck" data could be recovered into a >regular dataset without too much effort? > >is there any way to recover any of the data out of a ".sas7bdat.lck" >file, or convert it into a sas7bdat file? > >Thanks! > > >Thanks again!