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SAS EG: project file version not supported

My project was saved by SAS EG 7.1 and now I can't open it by SAS EG 6.1.

Is there any way to open the project by older (6.1) SAS EG? Maybe there is some special option in SAS EG 7.1, that allow to save project for opening by older EG?

Solution

  • A egp file is a zip file with XML. Backward converting SAS EG projects can be done like this:

    1. Rename the file to zip
    2. Extract the file
    3. Open the project.xml and replace all versions with 6.1 equivalents (see a 6.1 egp). Perhaps you need to replace versions in the EGTask folders.
    4. Now copy all files back into the original zip (use something like winrar because windows zip doesn't work).
    5. Rename it back to *.egp

    When you open it in EG 6.1 you will get a warning about git, this you can ignore. If you save the project with another name then you will not get the warning anymore.