
Title | Mac installation | |
Author | Chinh Nguyen, StataCorp |
You most likely did not move your old Stata 7 directory to the trash when you installed Stata 8. Move your Stata directory to the trash and empty it; then reinstall.
There is a problem with the read permissions of the contents of the Stata folder. To fix this,
cd /Applications/Stata
sudo chmod u+x setrwxp
sudo ./setrwxp
If the previous suggestion does not work, another possibility is that Stata has not been completely installed. Stata is completely installed when the installer notifies you that installation was successful.
Another possibility is that the ado folder is missing. If this is the case, reinstall Stata.
No, double-clicking an alias for Stata has the same effect as clicking the Stata icon to start it. This, in effect, makes Stata’s directory the current working directory. Just use Stata.do.
Double-clicking an alias of Stata.do has the same effect as double-clicking the original Stata.do file (i.e., it makes the location of the Stata.do file the current folder). This is most likely what you want to do.
It depends on what your intentions are. If it is to quickly get to Stata’s ado folder (assuming it is in Stata’s folder), sure. If the intention is to put Stata’s ado folder in a location other than Stata’s folder and then create the alias to it in Stata’s folder, then no. Stata will not follow the alias, so most of Stata’s commands will not work.