When running the SAS Migration Utility, you might receive the following error:

[ERROR ] SMU  The migration utility had an error:
[ERROR ] SMU  Malformed \uxxx encoding.

The problem occurs if you use single backslashes in the paths in the smu.properties file. The paths in the smu.properties file require double backslashes.

Here is the correct syntax to use when specifying properties in the smu.properties file:

This syntax is incorrect:

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