Thank you, Maarten. That was very useful.
Best regards and happy holidays!
Adrian
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> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:12:19 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Using do files in Windows 7 and XP
> To: [email protected]
>
> --- On Fri, 18/12/09, kokootchke wrote:
>> I have always had all of my do files in my desktop, which
>> runs Windows XP. The do files make lots of references to
>> folders such as "C:\Documents and Settings\Adrian\My
>> Documents\research". Now, I just bought a laptop that runs
>> Windows 7. How can I use those files on my new computer (the
>> laptop)? I thought I could manually create a folder called
>> "Documents and Settings\Adrian\My Documents\research" but
>> that seemed like a "brute-force" solution. Any ideas?
>
> one thing you could do is :
> 1) download Ulrich Kohler's -dirtools- (ssc install dirtools-)
> 2) use -ldo- from this package to get a list of do-files in
> your directory
> 3) use -filefilter- to replace the string representing your
> old path with a string representing the new path.
>
> To avoid this same problem you can make a do-file called
> home.do, whose only task is to define a global called $home
> which points to your home directory. Your other .do-files
> can than start with the line -do home.do- followed by the
> line -cd $home-. So the next time you change computers,
> all you have to change is the home.do file.
>
> This way you can also organize your work in different folders
> for each separate project, and have separate home.do files
> for each project. If you also like your files on your
> desktop, you can put links on your desktop to the .do files
> you are currently working on.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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> 72074 Tuebingen
> Germany
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