myfolders
. If you have any existing SAS programs or data sets that you want to use in the SAS University Edition, you can copy these SAS files to the myfolders
directory on your local computer.
![]() | If you want to access your existing SAS files in JupyterLab, make sure that the file and folder names do not include embedded spaces or special characters. JupyterLab does not support embedded spaces or special characters in file and folder names. For more information, see What is JupyterLab in SAS University Edition? |
If you have a lot of files, you might want to create folder shortcuts instead. To create these folder shortcuts, create additional shared folders. Unlike the myfolders
shared folder, you can customize the names for these folder shortcuts.
An example path of the myfolders folder on Windows is C:\SASUniversityEdition\myfolders
.
![]() | To ensure that this folder shortcut persists between sessions and when the SAS University Edition vApp is updated, use the shared folder functionality in your virtualization software to create these folder shortcuts. If you create a folder shortcut by using the New Folder Shortcut feature in SAS Studio, your folder shortcut is not saved when you sign out of SAS Studio. |
In this screenshot, the folder shortcuts are folder1, folder2, and folder3.
To create these folder shortcuts, complete the same steps that you completed to create the myfolders
shared folder. The primary difference is that you can customize the names for these folder shortcuts. You do not need to use the folder1, folder2, and folder3 naming conventions.
folder1
using VMware Workstation Player:
folder1
) where you want to create the shortcut. Click OK.
![]() | The name of the shared folder is case sensitive and should not include any spaces or special characters. If you use a network folder, do not include a backslash (\) in the name of the shared folder. |
Click Next.
You can add these shortcuts before you start SAS Studio or while SAS Studio is running. If you add these shortcuts while SAS Studio is running, click in the navigation pane to see the new folder shortcuts (for example, folder1).
To reference this folder shortcut in a SAS program, use /folders/myshortcuts/folder-name
.