st: problems with Windows Vista

[Kit Baum <Baum@bc.edu>]

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Bob reported problems earlier this month with -ssc new-. He wrote

Taking a hint provided by Nick Cox (thank you!), I found that using
Vista's "run as administrator" when invoking Stata allowed me to run
-ssc new. There is probably a permissions issue that I will
investigate later.


I recently had a private conversation with a user in Austin who was  
getting absolutely screwy results from -ivreg2- on Stata 9.2. After  
ensuring that she had the most up-to-date versions, I thought about  
the issue of official Stata updates. Turned out that every time she  
did 'update all', Vista would fail to update the files, butt Stata did  
not give a coherent error message as to the problem. I suggested that  
she run Stata as admin, as suggested above, and she reported that she  
could do the update, and ivreg2 worked fine once she did.

The strange thing is that Stata checks to see if the directory in  
which, e.g., official ado-files are written is writeable (which it  
was, for her) but then craps out on trying to move the files to that  
directory.

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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