Re: AW: st: -ssc new- error

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings

  In Windows/XP, you can change the startup directory by right clicking on the Stata icon 
and changing the path specified by "Start In". A similar process might work for 
Windows/Vista and Windows/7.
I hope that helps,

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-06-06 11.48 PM, Kaulisch, Marc wrote:
> The same has bitten me. When changed to another directory it worked - as reported...
>
> Marc
>
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> Gesendet: Montag, 7. Juni 2010 05:05
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: -ssc new- error
>
> Thanks Kit. My working directory is pointing to C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Stata11 which on checking properties is a read-only directory.
> That explains the problem.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On 6/6/2010 9:21 PM, Christopher Baum wrote:
> > <>
> > Michael said
> >
> > For the last two days I receive the following error after entering
> > -ssc new-. ( BTW -ssc hot- works fine)
> >
> > ssc new
> > (contacting
> >    http://repec.org)
> >
> > file ssc_results.smcl could not be opened r(603);
> >
> > Error(603) reads:
> >
> > "file __________ could not be opened;
> >            This file, although found, failed to open properly.  This
> >            error is unlikely to occur.  You will have to review your
> >            operating system's manual to determine why it occurred."
> >
> > I have Windows 7; Stata version 11.1.
> >
> > Any idea what settings in Windows 7 might cause such an error?
> >
> >
> >
> > The file ssc_results.smcl should end up in the current working
> > directory. When you get the error, do
> >
> > pwd
> >
> > within Stata, and see what that directory is. (It is also displayed somewhere on screen; not sure where in Windows). You need to be able to write a new file in that directory.
> >
> > Kit
> >
> >
> >
> > Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics&   DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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> >
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