Hi, Just upgraded my leopard to snow leopard (macbook pro) and have discovered that spss 16 now no longer opens files, the output now reads something about character encoding (windows 1252) incompatible with current LOCALE setting. Advanced Dbf Repair Full. Otherwise, it appears that the program works, i.e.

I can type in a new dataset and analyse it (so far). Spss is absolutely crucial to my life - what can I do? Is it possible to emulate 'Leopard' (which it worked on), or is there some upgrade patch I haven't found, or some solution anyone knows of? I've noticed spss has spss18 ready for preorder that is compatible with snow leopard, but I don't think I can wait that long! If I need to, I'll need to uninstall snow leopard (which I'm not even sure I can do given I didn't do any backups before installling) Help?:-) Thanks.

I’ve been trying to install SPSS 17 on my Mac (Snow Leopard) for weeks and finally found your page. Install SPSS patch 17.0.1 5). You Have SPSSStatistics 17.0 17.0.1'. 4) Install SPSS patch 17.0.1 Dec 9, 2009 SPSS 17 refuses to run or even install under Snow Leopard. Page 2 of 2 - SPSS 16 not working with Snow Leopard- what can I do? - posted in OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). Install SPSS patch 17.0.2 6).

Go to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions. There you should find three symlink folders named '1.5', '1.5.0' and 'CurrentJDK'. In Snow Leopard, they all link to another folder '1.6.0' where the Java 1.6 resides.

In Leopard (on a 32-bit machine), '1.5' is a symlink to a '1.5.0' folder that contains Java 1.5 and 'CurrentJDK' also links to '1.5.0'. To make SPSS 16.0 work in Snow Leopard, first you need to replace these three folders with the Leopard versions. If you have a TimeMachine backup its easy - just restore them.

Otherwise you may need to find Leopard Java 1.5.0 somewhere else and use the command line in Terminal a bit to accomplish the same thing. See Once you've done this you will have both 1.5 and 1.6 installed and can use the Java Preferences application in /Applications/Utilities to switch to Java 1.5 (JRE 5.0) by dragging it to the top of the Java Applications list. On my 32-bit iMac Core Duo, the above TimeMachine / Java Preferences procedure made SPSS 16.0 work normally again. Thanks so much to you both, I got dbmacdon's solution to work I'm a new mac user, so just let me quickly go over exactly what I did (as everything wants you to use complicated scripts etc and I also had never backed up my laptop) so that other amateurs can figure this out First I downloaded the java1.5.0 from this site- That's a direct download link btw. I then double clicked on it to unpack it, found the 'Java 5. Emulator Callus95. 0' folder it had unpacked in my downloads folder, and brought it over to my desktop I then went to (in finder) Devices-System-Library-Frameworks-JavaVM.framework-versions I dragged the newly downloaded Java1.5.0 into the versions folder, at which point it asked me to 'authenticate' and then 'replace the older version of this file'. I then found 'java preferences' (went back to spotlight and types 'java preferences' in, and on the bottom of the two list of Java versions (of which you should now have java1.6 32bit, java1.6 64bit, jave15.5 32bit, java1.5 32bit), the list entailing what your computer should use with programmes, I dragged 'java1.5 32bit' onto the top of the list SPSS now works!

Hope that helps, Thanks so much dbmacdon - and thanks to Nick as well- that would have been my next step if this hadn't worked. Another thank you to dbmacdon - I got SPSS running (mostly) with that fix. However, changing back the 'CurrentJDK' file prevented SPSS from even launching on my MacBook Pro, and prevented Safari from running, too. So with '1.5' and '1. Cox Cable Box Manual here. 5.0' reverted back to Leopard files, my SPSS now runs, Except! It can no longer open Excel files as it could before.