Re: st: Stata 11 64-bit no longer runs my profile.do automatically

[Gary Longton <glongton@fhcrc.org>]

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John,

Though there are probably several solutions for the location your 
profile.do (see -help profilew-), one that has worked for me in the 
context of 64-bit Stata 11 on Windows 7 is to place it in c:\ado.

c:ado should be in Stata's default adopath when it starts up (see -help 
sysdir-), though the adopath is one of the things I modify in my 
profile.do.
Stata seems to find the profile.do here and run it whether started from 
clicking on a Stata dataset or starting from the Stata desktop icon.

- Gary

On 2/2/2011 9:29 AM, John LeBlanc wrote:

> For years, I have been able to double-click on a Stata data file, have
> it automatically open in Stata, have Stata open in the folder where the
> .dta file resides, and run my profile.do file that contains all of my
> customizations. This worked up until version 9.2 32-bit running in
> Windows 7 64-bit professional. I modified the "open" command for the
> file type .DTA as follows:
>
> This works with Stata 9.2 on Windows 7
> C:\Progra~2\STATS\STATA\wstata.exe do
> c:\progra~2\stats\stata\john\profile.do "%1"
>
> This does not work with Stata 11 64-bit on Windows 7
> Action for 'Open' under filetype .dta
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stats\Stata\Stata-64.exe" do
> c:\progra~2\stats\stata\john\profile.do "%1"
>
>
> Is this stored in a different location on the registry? has something
> else changed?
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