Re: st: problem with "update swap"

[Christian Holz <statalist@krueschan.de>]

Susan,
you could do it manually:
Close Stata and go to the file, where your Stata is installed (e.g. 
C:\Program Files\Stata).
Delete the wstata_old.exe and rename the wstata.exe to wstata_old.exe
Rename the wstata.bin file to wstata.exe and everything should be fine.
C.
P.S. Instructions can also be found here: 
http://www.stata.com/support/updates/stata8/win/

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Christian Holz
Department of Sociology
University of Glasgow
Scotland, U.K.

Susan Meng wrote:

> I would like to download the newest executable in STATA 8, but when I
> type the command "update swap" it gives me the following error message:
> . update swap
>
>      1.  Removing older backups
>          removing wstata_old.exe
>      2.  Backing up current executables.
>          copying wstata.exe to wstata_old.exe
> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
> process.
> Could not copy C:\unzipped\Stata8\Stata8\wstata.exe to
> C:\unzipped\Stata8\Stata8\w
>   > stata_old.exe
> r(695);
>
> What can I do to fix this? Thanks
>
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