SAS Orphaned Workspace

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Sometimes SAS doesn’t shut down correctly and you get stuck with orphaned workspace. These orphaned workspace directories should be cleaned out now and again. You can run this code in SAS to find out where your workspace is and then go to the directory and delete any old ones.data _null_; w = getoption(‘work’); put w=;run;On my windows machine this gets me something like:w=C:\DOCUME~1\STEPHE~

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