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When you launch a SAS^® session, SAS checks the directory designated by the SASUSER system option (by default, the location of the directory is ~/sasuser.v92 or ~/sasuser.v93) to determine whether it is possible to write to the Registry file (regstry.sas7bitm). If it is not possible, SAS issues the following messages:

   NOTE: Unable to open SASUSER.REGSTRY. WORK.REGSTRY will be opened instead.
   NOTE: All registry changes will be lost at the end of the session.

SAS also checks to determine whether the Registry file can be read. If the Registry file is readable, SAS copies the existing Registry settings to WORK.REGSTRY so that the current settings will be in place for the new SAS session. If the Registry file is not readable, then SAS creates a new WORK.REGSTRY file with default settings and issues the following message in addition to the 2 messages above:

   WARNING: Unable to copy SASUSER registry to WORK registry. Because of this, 
            you will not see registry customizations during this session.

To troubleshoot this problem, see Usage Note 13838.

For information about a similar message, see Usage Note 13803: "NOTE: Unable to open SASUSER.PROFILE. WORK.PROFILE will be opened instead" in UNIX environments.

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