One way of inadvertently setting a file to "Read only" is to copy it to a CD
for transport from an old to a new machine. When you then copy the file from
the CD to the new machine, the "Read only" attribute is maintained.
--H�kon
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buzz Burhans [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 24. januar 2003 01:43
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: unable to update user written do-files
>
>
> 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 <[email protected]> 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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