Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error

[Alan Mead]

Manos,

When you select Help > About, what version does it say? Because I cannot
replicate your error.

When I use GNU pspp 1.2.0-g0fb4db on Windows 7, I run scatterplot.
Select export, select PDF, choose a filename ("filename"), navigate to
"C:\Users\Amead\Google Drive\Active" (because my filesystem is
different) and click save, it saves. There's no error.

I do get an error if I skip navigating to a writable directory. The
default is "C:\Windows\system32" which is not writable and I get:

error: error opening output file `C:\Windows\system32\filename.pdf':
error while writing to output stream

So, I'm unable to replicate your problem, except when I pick an
unwriteable folder. Are you sure you have permission to write to
"C:\Users\Myname\Onedrive\MyPC\the name of the folder i want\"? And that
"data.pdf" is not write protected?

For example, using some sync software on Windows, I occasionally get
errors if I write a file and then try to access it immediately, because
the sync software has the file open to sync to the cloud.

But the bottom line is that I don't know why you cannot write that file.
I cannot rule out a bug in PSPP, but googling that error (the one I got,
which I'm assuming is the one you are getting) suggests that many
different users using many different kinds of software encounter this
kind of error.

-Alan


On 11/24/2019 12:40 PM, Manos Markakis wrote:
> ok so i press export after i finished. i name the file choose the
> folder i want it to be put and then i choose the format that i want it
> to be read, so i choose pdf. i press save and the error says: error
> opening output file C:\Users\Myname\Onedrive\MyPC\the name of the
> folder i want\data.pdf: error while writing to output stream
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Alan Mead <address@hidden>
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 24, 2019 8:32 PM
> *To:* Manos Markakis <address@hidden>; address@hidden
> <address@hidden>
> *Subject:* Re: pspp: error while writing to output stream error
>  
> Manos,
>
> As a guess, you are trying to write to a directory for which you do do
> have write permission.
>
> To help you further, we need you to fully describe your problem, with
> step-by-step instructions for replicating the problem. We also need
> the exact error message, including the directory names.
>
> -Alan
>
>
> On 11/24/2019 9:40 AM, Manos Markakis wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem. When Im done making the graphs I want, I try to save them 
>> but they won't save and this error comes up: error opening output file 
>> C/....error while writing to output stream. I don't know what to do. I tried 
>> to save them via the print option but still they won't open.
>>
>> Thank you
>
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Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
President, Talent Algorithms Inc.

science + technology = better workers

http://www.alanmead.org

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,
write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone,
comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate,
act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for 
insects."

-- Robert A. Heinlein