Re: st: Problems with -update

[Philip Ryan <philip.ryan@adelaide.edu.au>]

Andre

I have had this problem on occasions as well (Windows/Stata version 8) and 
my suspicion is that the University of Adelaide's web server has a cache 
that doesn't always help matters when you try for the auto update.  I have 
also then gone around in ever-decreasing circles trying to get the manual 
download and local update to be reflected in the information returned by 
-update query-.  If no other solutions are proffered then what worked for 
me was to delete the entire official   ado\update   folder  and then either 
auto or manually updating the ado files.  Sounds drastic but  the update 
folder is really a rather (temporarily) dispensable part of Stata.  (You 
could of course, always rename or otherwise hide the existing ado\update 
folder while you build a new one.)

Phil






At 10:28 AM 30/08/2004 +0930, you wrote:

> I've recently applied the update to a Macintosh version of Stata 7 so
> that it can be used natively within Mac OS X.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get the ado files to update; a message is
> received that the URL "could not be
> opened for read by copytextfile".
>
> I've noticed within the archive that this problem had previously arisen,
> but no solution had been suggested.
>
> Any way to apply the update manually i.e. i've downloaded the ado
> archive file, unpacked it but update via the browse function still
> doesn't update the ado files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andre Duszynski.
>
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