Re: st: question about STATA12 on OS X 10.7.2

[Steve Nakoneshny <scnakone@ucalgary.ca>]

Hi Ugo,

I've run into a similar problem on a couple of different Macs when trying to update Stata that was installed by a different user. My solution was to go to Applications > Stata, use Command-i to get info. I then changed the sharing & permissions settings such that admin users have read & write access and then applied those changes to all enclosed items within the application folder. It's far more efficient than modifying permissions on each file and folder individually...

On 2011-12-14, at 10:54 AM, Ugo Antonio Troiano wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just installed STATA on an OS X 10.7.2 . As I try to update the
> commands, I get the following error : "cannot write in directory
> /Applications/Stata/.tmp r(603);" . I looked at the history of the
> STATA list, and someone had similar problems for creating the
> directories, and the solution was simply creating a directory. In this
> case it does not seem to be a problem of directory creation. Do you
> have any trick on how to approach this problem?
> 
> thanks a lot!
> 
> best,
> 
> Ugo
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