st: re: Stata stops recognizing basic commands

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Nick said

... But I don't think reinstalling
Stata will make anything worse. StataCorp put an enormous amount of
effort into making that process inherently safe.

With a caveat, with regard to the material Jo has downloaded from the  
web. If Jo used the -ssc- or -net install- commands, those files will  
be placed in a directory other than the default Stata directory.  
Stata's update process (and reinstall process) assumes that  
everything in the default Stata directory is Stata's stuff, and not  
the user's stuff. Sometimes users manually place downloaded materials  
in the Stata directory, and those could be lost in an upgrade/reinstall.

Downloaded materials should be placed in the PERSONAL or PLUS  
directories, as defined by -adopath-.

Kit

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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