st: Help -- Having Difficulty Updating STATA Under Mac OS X

[Jeremy Fox <jeremytfox@mac.com>]

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 11:33  PM, statalist-digest wrote:

> I hope that someone from this list can help me.  This issue is really
> starting to get old for me.  I have just tried to update my exe file
> but the system will not do it -- I keep getting an error message.  The
> usual drill is for me to erase the entire STATA file and to reinstall
> the CD and then to do an update.  STATA Technical support has been of
> little or no help on this issue.  I am currently running OS 10.2.5,
> 80GB harddisk, and 1.2 GB of memory.  What can I do to get a smooth
> updating of the exe file?
I ran into this bug as well. In my case, there were two problems:
    1. Stata downloaded a file with the wrong name (StataSE.1 in my 
case)
    2. The file had the wrong permissions

My solution;
     1. Delete the old Stata / StataSE (drag app to trash)
     2. Open up Terminal
     3. Type chmod u+rwx /Applications/Stata/StataSE
(there may be a non-UNIX geek method to do this using the "Get Info" 
command in the Finder and looking at the permissions tab. Basically, 
you want to give yourself  permission to use the Stata application)
     4. Rename StataSE.1 to StataSE

This was an annoying process caused by some bug in Stata or maybe 
putting the wrong file on StataCorp server, but there you go.

Jeremy

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Jeremy T. Fox
jerfox@stanford.edu

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