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EViews is too complicated under the hood

Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 3:20 pm
by startz
Drag-and-drop csv file onto EViews 9--works fine.
Instead, open the file in Excel. While it's open drag-and-drop onto EViews. Get the dreaded "Dataset does not contains [sic] any tables" alert.

Re: EViews is too complicated under the hood

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 11:15 am
by EViews Jason
We were incorrectly reporting the wrong error. It should report a 'sharing violation' error. It will be fixed in the next patch

Re: EViews is too complicated under the hood

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 11:27 am
by startz
Can't you open the file read-only or something to avoid the violation? Or is Excel too annoying?

Re: EViews is too complicated under the hood

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 11:29 am
by EViews Gareth
Excel puts a complete lock down on CSV files.