It would be an interesting case if Stata were sensitive to a
particular hardware used for storage, but it is so highly unlikely.
1. What happens if you try -estwrite- with your portable HDD with on
another machine with Stata?
2. Try to see if Stata can write files to your portable HDD, e.g.:
file open fh using X:\myfile.txt, write text replace
file write fh "Test" _n
file close fh
3. Check all the write permissions, antiviruses, watchdogs, etc.
Perhaps one of such programs is triggered by a particular sequence of
bytes that -estwrite- is writing.
Regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Given that
>
> . error 603
> file could not be opened
> r(603);
>
> my guess is that you should consider the problem to lie in your portable
> set-up, and not in -estwrite-, despite your last sentence.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Carl Nelson
>
> I experienced a file open error with estwrite and am wondering if
> someone can explain the cause or a fix.
>
> estwrite works fine when I write to a folder in my documents on the c
> drive on my laptop.
>
> but it generates r(603) when I try to write to a folder on a western
> digital passport portable hd connected to a usb port. Stata has no
> problem reading data or writing logs to the portable hd.
>
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