Uploading Files onto SPSS Using Citrix

Final modified 12/14/2021

When working on SPSS inside the Low-cal Version of the Citrix Receiver, you should have an option to upload information sets and other files onto SPSS. You can upload files from your figurer equally well as external difficult drives and flash drives.

Uploading Files onto SPSS

First, you will want to be logged into Citrix and have started SPSS in the Light version of Citrix. You tin can navigate to citrix.illinoisstate.edu and select Light version later logging in (Figure 2). After selecting the Light version , click on the Desktops icon (Figure i) to come across which Virtual Computers are available. Click on APPS to meet what Applications are ready for utilise. If you are in a course that uses SPSS, yous should see that program listed in Apps. Select SPSS.

Figure one:

Desktops and Apps icons

Figure 2:
Citrix login with Light Version option

When starting upwards SPSS, yous will be met with a Welcome Screen where you are able to create a new dataset, a new database query, or open a recent file you have worked on. To upload a file to SPSS, click the Open another file push button on the welcome window (Figure 3). From there, you volition exist prompted to scan your computer for a file.

Figure iii:
image of SPSS open file option

If you are attempting to upload a file from an external drive, sometimes you lot will not come across the drive available to you when asked to browse your computer. If this is happening to you, delight read the section below for an culling method.

Culling Method to Uploading Files onto SPSS

You are to use this method if you are unable to upload a file the traditional way. Sometimes, SPSS won't exist able to find an external drive when browsing files. This method shows you how to browse your external drives for the files yous want to upload.

  1. When you desire to upload a file, yous should see a menu button at the top of the window within SPSS. Highlighting your mouse over the button will change it. Click the menu button to aggrandize the menu (Figure four).

    Figure 4:

  2. From there, you should see an upload button. Click the upload button to bring up your File Explorer (If you are on a Windows) or your Finder (If you are on a Mac). This is where you will find the file you want to upload.
  3. The location of the file is dependent on where y'all take it saved. Read the instructions below for finding specific drives on Windows and Mac machines:
    • Windows: If information technology is on an external drive or another drive on your figurer, it will exist under This PC when the file explorer is opened (Effigy v).

      Figure 5:

      Windows File Explorer and Drive Locations

    • Mac: If it is on a flash drive, the wink drive should be under a department in your Finder called Locations on the left-hand side of your screen. If your flash bulldoze does not show upward, the Locations folder may exist hidden. But hover your mouse over Locations and click Show to evidence the drives nether that section. If information technology is on the Mac's drive, click the navigator on the top of the Finder where y'all can select dissimilar drives or folders (Figure 6).

      Effigy 6:
      Mac Finder drive locations

Still Demand Assistance?

For questions on How to use SPSS or Citrix, refer to your Instructor/Professor. For Technical issues, Submit a Aid Ticket or contact the Technology Support Center by telephone at 309-438-4357 or email SupportCenter@illinoisstate.edu.

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