STATA 17: Problem in importing dataset

[Sandipta Chakraborty]

Stata 17
Problem importing dataset with do file syntax (noticed after installing the recent update of 05 Oct 2021)

Returing with errors like, "file not found", "file could not be opened" etc.

Example 1:

. do "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\STD16cc_00 0000 .tmp"

. insheet using "C:\Users\Lenovo\Box\Short Study\Women's Empowerment\data-WE-cleaned_zscore.csv"
file C:\Users\Lenovo\Box\Short Study\Women's Empowerment\data-WE-cleaned_zscore.csv not found
r(601);




Example 2:

. do "C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\STD16cc_00 0000 .tmp"

. import delimited "C:\Users\Lenovo\Box\Short Study\Women’s Empowerment\data-WE-cleaned_zscore.csv"
(encoding automatically selected: ISO-8859-1)
(148 vars, 268 obs)

. save "C:\Users\Lenovo\Box\Short Study\Women's Empowerment\data-CN-1.dta"

. use "C:\Users\Lenovo\Box\Short Study\Women's Empowerment\data-CN-1.dta", clear
file C:\Users\Lenovo\Box\Short Study\Women's Empowerment\data-CN-1.dta not found
r(603);

[William Lisowski]

I note that your file path doesn't look like I would expect. Is it a directory used for filesharing with Box?

[Sandipta Chakraborty]

Yes, the datafile is kept in a folder within Box drive of my PC. But previously I never faced such such issue with earlier version of Stata.

[William Lisowski]

Network drives and cloud services are a frequent source of problem reports on Statalist. Note that the import that failed in Example 1 was successful in Example 2, but the subsequent save did not give the expected confirmation message.

You may find this linked post helpful.

[Sandipta Chakraborty]

Thank you for the guidance