Re: st: unable to update user written do-files

[Buzz Burhans <wsb2@cornell.edu>]

Thank you Friedrich.  You are exactly correct, that was the 
problem.  Apparently, somehow in the process of transferring the ado folder 
from the original computer to the new one all the files had their 
permissions changed to "read only".  I had spent several hours going back 
and forth with Stata tech support about two weeks ago, and we never checked 
that, or figured it out.  In the end I felt somewhat foolish,as I figured 
it out late this afternoon, but only after I had followed some suggestions 
from Kevin Crow at Stata Tech support and we had removed my ado folder, 
made another one, and copied a single ado file in and tried to update it, 
which failed, but got me to looking at the file properties

Thanks for the suggestion

Buzz Burhans


At 04:29 PM 1/23/03 -0800, you wrote:

> --- Buzz Burhans <wsb2@cornell.edu> wrote:
> > [long post about update problem]
>
> Buzz,
>
> You or Stata tech support probably checked this already: are the
> files in the ado folder set to "read only"?
>
> Friedrich Huebler
>
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