do file doesn't run well on Dropbox

[Ben Ronen]

Hey everyone,

we are using Dropbox to collaborate our work in Stata. I wrote a do file that runs perfectly on a regular directory but doesn't on our shared Dropbox folder.
I'll just mention that it usually stucks on one of the many putexcel commands the do file contains, giving a "file .....\..\name.xlsx could not be saved." error. I assume it's because on Dropbox it takes more time to save files than there is between different putexcel commands.

Is that a known issue? Is there a way to still run the do file on Dropbox and avoide it?

Thanks in advance,
Ben

[Andrea Discacciati]

See

https://www.statalist.org/forums/forum/general-stata-discussion/general/1318022-extremely-basic-putexcel-doesn-t-work-no-error-message

[Nick Cox]

Here's Andrea's link https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...-error-message

[Ben Ronen]

Great trick! solved it!

Thank you, Andrea and Nick