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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Original Message:
Sent: Tue August 03, 2021 11:11 AM
From: Brendan Meany
Subject: Exporting Data to MPLUS
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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