Re: st: Stata randomly drops variables

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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Make sure you update your Stata to the latest version available. This  
has come up previously. What version are you using?

-Dave

On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Nikolaus Rentrop wrote:


> Dear Stata community,
>
> I'm quite new to this mailing list, so I hope that this topic hasn't  
> been discussed already without me noticing. Currently I'm having a  
> major problem while working with Stata for a university term paper:  
> I'm conducting a short pooled time series analysis in Stata 10 SE  
> but I can't even get to the actual statistics because Stata keeps  
> dropping variables randomly when I'm working with the data editor.  
> Every time I generate a new variable, insert the data, label it and  
> try to save the file, suddenly one or two variables disappear  
> magically. The problem is mentioned nowhere in the official Stata  
> community forums and when I googled the issue, there were only a few  
> posts reporting the same problem.
>
> So, basicly, I'm just interested whether any of you have ever  
> experienced the same problem or whether it is somehow a very exotic  
> one. If somebody comes up with a solution, this would be great, of  
> course. I am looking forward to receiving your responses soon,  
> because - understandably - this is a quite fundamental problem ;).
>
> Best regards from Germany,
>
> Niko
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