Working with Projects

Project Troubleshooting Tips

If an Enterprise Miner program fails or halts, then the .lck file for the diagram is not usually deleted. The file will prevent you from reopening the diagram in a new Enterprise Miner session, because you will hold a lock on the diagram. If this occurs, follow these steps:

Close your Enterprise Miner session.
Use Windows Explorer or another file utility to locate and open the EMPROJ subfolder for the project.
Find the .lck file that matches the diagram that you were working on and delete it.
Restart Enterprise Miner and open the diagram.

If you restart Enterprise Miner and the Project Properties window indicates the project is currently being shared, but you know that you are the only person using the project, then Enterprise Miner was also probably not shut down properly. In this case, follow these steps:

Close all Enterprise Miner sessions.
Make sure that no one else is using the project.
Use Windows Explorer or another file utility to open the EMPROJ folder for the project.
Open the USERS folder and delete its contents, but not delete the USERS folder.
Restart Enterprise Miner and reopen the project.

If you try to open a project and are informed by a message window that the project libraries could not be assigned, then either the EMPROJ or EMDATA library is still in use. A few reasons why the EMPROJ or EMDATA library is still in use include the following:

An FSVIEW window for a data set in either library could be open.
A CATALOG window is open.
A data set or some other SAS file was not closed properly by Enterprise Miner.

You should first try to find and close the window that is using the data set or file. If you are still unable to open the project, you should close and then restart Enterprise Miner. If this step fails as well, then close and restart SAS.

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