Re: st: Re: Stata 9 announcement

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

Ulrich Kohler wrote:

> Sometimes I accidentelly save a changed dataset under the same name as 
> the
> orignial dataset. This happens if I accidently hit "Ctrl S" in Stata, 
> which
> causes Stata to execute the command -save, replace-. I have once asked
> StataCorp to make -save, replace- impossible, but (unfortunately) with no
> success.
But you can indeed make it impossible. The very top preference button in 
'general preferences' reads 'Overwrite existing data when saving'. 
Unchecking this means that you get a warning before overwriting. The 
default behaviour for command-S or Ctrl-S is 'save, replace' in other 
applications, and Stata made the decision to allow this behaviour in 
Stata too (in version 7, I think) but to include an over-ride.

Unless this preference is missing from the Windows version - is it?

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