Usage Note 68182: Suppress the SAS® Enterprise Guide® auto-recovery save dialog box
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The following dialog box might appear if the SAS Enterprise Guide auto-recovery save takes longer than three seconds:
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Post-Hot-Fix Instructions
Beginning with SAS Enterprise Guide 8.3 Update 3, a configuration option to control the timing of the auto-recovery save dialog box is available. Use a text editor to add the AutoRecoveryBusyDelay option to the <appSettings> section of the SEGuide.exe.config file. This file is located in the SAS Enterprise Guide installation directory. Here is an example of how to delay the save dialog box for 10 seconds:
<add key="AutoRecoveryBusyDelay" value="10000" />
</appSettings>
The configuration option is case sensitive. Do not copy and paste from this SAS Note into the SEGuide.exe.config file. Instead, enter the configuration option and value manually.
Note: The default installation directories for SAS Enterprise Guide are C:\Program Files (x86)\SASHome\x86\SASEnterpriseGuide\8 for the 32-bit version and C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASEnterpriseGuide\8 for the 64-bit version.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Enterprise Guide | Macintosh | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | ||||
| OS/2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | ||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | ||||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | ||||
| Windows Vista | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | ||||