Problem Note 64204: You receive the pop-up message "Exception: Insufficient authorization to access..." when you try to save your program in SAS® Studio
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When you try to save a program to a location that you are not authorized to write to in SAS Studio, the following occurs:
- SAS Studio closes the session without offering you an option to save your program to a valid location.
- You lose your program.
In this scenario, a pop-up message opens that reads similar to the following:
Exception: Insufficient authorization to access file-name.
To work around this issue, click Save As when you are saving a program in SAS Studio.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Studio | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 3.6 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 3.6 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 3.6 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 3.6 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 3.6 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||||
A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.8 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D8F.html#64204A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.71 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/C2L.html#64204
If you try to save a program to an unauthorized location in SAS Studio, you are unable to save. Instead, you see a pop-up message that reads, "Exception: Insufficient authorization to access...".
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2020-02-18 15:21:23 |
| Date Created: | 2019-05-16 13:32:09 |