Define a Current Directory for several users

[Juan Sebastian]

Hi everyone:

I'm new to this forum so sorry if I'm don't follow appropiate style for questions


Problem: Everytime I share a dofile to someone he must update the current directory to the place where the Stata database is stored in his computer. Is there any way in Stata to define a common workspace or route or any program that allows it?

[Alan Neustadtl]

One solution is to define the directories for different users like this using MS Windows-like directories:

capture cd "c:\users\juan\"
capture cd "d:\system\different user"

/* More Code Goes Here */

The capture traps any errors allowing the program to keep running. and the default directory should be changed to one or the other if correctly specified.