Or take a look at
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-09/msg00040.html
Basically, when double clicking, you reference the file type, which
tells windows to open stata with 1M of memory. You just need to change
that reference to however much memory you _generally_ want it to open
with.
that post was found by searching the archives for "memory" and "clicking".
Dan
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:54:05 -0500, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:00 AM 11/12/2004 +0100, Paolo Grillo, MD wrote:
> >I wuold like to know why when you try to open a big file with .dta
> >extension directly (i.e with mouse double click), stata software start
> >with memory of 1M, and so it advises you to increase memory. Obviously I
> >'ve already set memory to 30M permanently, as you can see starting
> >software itself.
> >Thank You
> >Paolo
>
> I don't know, but here is one workaround. When I double-click on a .dta
> file, the first few lines look like this:
>
> -------------------
> Notes:
> 1. (/m# option or -set memory-) 1.00 MB allocated to data
>
> running c:\ado\personal\profile.do ...
>
> . use "D:\SOC592\Statafiles\1sample-III.dta"
> -------------------
>
> My profile.do includes the command -set memory 128m- so the memory gets
> bumped before it opens the file.
>
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