Good Morning-

I am trying to export data from SPSS to MPLUS. Apparently MPLUS prefers .dat files without variable names attached. 

When saving my work there is not option to change the file to a .dat. or remove the names. I only see this:

Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated! I am trying to run a multi-level path analysis in MPLUS. 

Cheers,
Brendan 

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Brendan Meany
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#SPSSStatistics

Hi. Try the SAVE TRANSLATE command, type CSV, opt not to save names. If you want, change the extension from csv to dat.

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Rick Marcantonio
Quality Assurance
IBM
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Another issue. If you want to see options available for saving on Mac, in SPSS go to. Edit > Options > General and uncheck "Display native macOS file dialogs."



Then select File > Save As... and you should see more helpful options.

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Rick Marcantonio
Quality Assurance
IBM
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Thank you so much for everyone's help! I resolved the problem thanks to the very prompt and excellent directions. 

Cheers,
Brendan 


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Brendan Meany
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue August 03, 2021 01:55 PM
From: Rick Marcantonio
Subject: Exporting Data to MPLUS

Another issue. If you want to see options available for saving on Mac, in SPSS go to. Edit > Options > General and uncheck "Display native macOS file dialogs."



Then select File > Save As... and you should see more helpful options.

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Rick Marcantonio
Quality Assurance
IBM
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You can run a command like
save translate outfile="c:\temp\out.dat" type=csv.
to get a text file without variable names.

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Jon Peck
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