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How to open .SAV file.

I have a set of .SAV files that a client has asked for me to open. I am not knowledgeable of these type of files. When I open the file in notepad I see the text "SPSS DATA FILE MS Windows 17.0.0".

I wanted to see if anyone has experience with these files. If you know of a free viewer that I can use to open these files, I would greatly appreciate it.

becraig

Try the statistical software package from IBM:

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/downloads.html

More info on other file types:
http://fileinfo.com/extension/sav

I am hoping this is not a saved game you are trying to open :~)

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Gary Patterson, CISSP

When you say you client wants you to "open" them, what does that mean? As others have mentioned above, SPSS is a software package, and these SAV files are for use by the SPSS program.

Asking you to open them without the software they are designed to be used with is like asking you to "open" an SQL Server database file without installing SQL server.

Do they want you to extract/export some data? If so, in what format? If you can provide some more information about your specific goals, we might be able to provide more specific suggestions.

Note that IBM offers trial version of various SPSS tools that should be capable of opening these files.

Also, there is an open-source tool called PSPP that may be able to import these SPSS SAV files:

http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

rye004

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Thank you for your quick help.