Jo--
The only thing to do before implementing these solutions is to back up
your disk as is, unless you are sure you never stored user-written
files anywhere that official Stata might overwrite them. Most
user-written files are available over the net, but if you have some
that you wrote yourself, or got over email from colleagues, they may
not be easily reinstalled after overwriting a files. Such an outcome
is unlikely, but possible. For example, if you modified the official
codebook.ado to allow -if- and -in- options and then saved it in an
official Stata directory (a bad practice, but one I have seen used) it
could get overwritten when reinstalling and then be irretrievably
lost. Of course, if you find yourself in this type of situation, you
have learned a valuable lesson--you should rename files and programs
when you modify them, and save them in a safe location. Small
consolation if you lose something important, I suppose.
On Dec 12, 2007 11:14 AM, William Gould, StataCorp LP <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jo has already gotten lots of good advice from the list. Some of that
> advice, however, as been of the form of "do this and hope" and then
> gone on to mention how serious the problem might be. Jo, I fear, may
> be more nervous than ever.
>
> Here's my advice:
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