Manos provided me the file off-list. Manos, I have some good news and some bad news. The first point of good news is that I was able to recover your data; if there were 33 cases, then I recovered all of them. I will send it back to you off-list.
The first point of bad news is that most of your variable labels and value labels are gone. This is because of a character encoding issue. Most of the characters in your text are Greek. This is fine, because PSPP handles Unicode text just fine. However, this file was saved in encoding CP1252. This encoding is a Latin character encoding (Windows commonly uses it for English text) that does not contain the Greek alphabet. When PSPP converted Greek characters to CP1252, it changed them into ?. The original characters were lost. I am afraid that most of the time you spent entering variable and value labels was, therefore, lost. If there is any good news to the latter point, it is that it means that I (or another PSPP developer) need to spend some time updating how PSPP chooses the character encoding it uses for data files that it saves. If that work is successful, then it will mean that future users won't lose work in the same way. I am very sorry that this happened to you. I am sure that you are frustrated. On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:16 AM Manos Markakis <sonam_ga...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello > I try to open a sav file after i worked with it for 3 hours and when i open > it, the database that i had is lost and a message saying error C:/...... > near offset 0x28f0: invalid variable name '???????' . What can i do? How can > i open the file and most important will i be able to see my database or its > gone and i need to do it all over? > > Thank you
