Debugging Stata

Specific to certain systems

RedCloud

Problems with temp files

Some (user-written) Stata packages do improper handling of Windows network paths. This affects the use of temp files.

Symptom

> graph ..., saving(`tempfile')
(file \\rschfs2x\share\statatemp\ST_7390_000002.tmp not found)

file \\rschfs2x\share\statatemp\ST_7390_000002.tmp saved as .gph format

...
> graph combine `tempfile` other_file.gph, ...

file \rschfs2x\share\statatemp\ST_7390_000002.tmp not found

(the error is not specific to the graph command). Note the missing double-backslash in the path.

Solution

You need to redirect the STATATMP directory to a non-networked drive:

export STATATMP="/c/Users/$USERNAME/statatmp"
mkdir "$STATATMP"
cd "/l/workspace/aearep-5697/203501/Data and do-files"
"/c/Program Files/Stata18/StataMP-64.exe" -b master.do

This normally succeeds.