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

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

> > 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?
>
> Steven
>
> Well, I hope it is not called an exe file or you are reallyl in trouble
> ;-). Stata -update swap- expects to find "Stata.bin" but on the Mac
> under OS X it is just called "Stata". Instead of doing -update swap-
> just quit and remove the old Stata (actually, I compress and save mine,
> just in case) and rename the file Stata.1 to Stata. Then go.
>
> regards
> David
If it were this simple. It never worked for me. When I did this (and 
emptied the trash), the rename StataSE.1 never starts.


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