Moving many files into OneDrive

[Hesham Ali]

Hello all,
I have a question please. I worked on many projects on Stata. All the data was stored in my local hard drive. Recently, I realized the importance of uploading my files to the internet. So, I want to upload all of my files to OneDrive.
The problem is: In the doi files, I used to write ALOT of merge, import, use, etc commands. In all of those, I specified a path (destination) to the folder I am using. For example, import D:\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3.
Now, when I upload (move) all of my files to OneDrive, ALL of these commands will not work because the right code should be: import D:\OneDrive_CompanyName\Folder1\Folder2\Folder3.
Note: I was thinking about changing the working directory in each doi file but I do not think this solution is going to work.

So, can you please guide me on how can I upload (move) my files to OneDrive without needing to adjust all of my doi files to reflect the right path?

I would be very grateful if anyone can share any solution, tips, or insights.
Thank you so much all.
Kind regards.

[Chul Lee]

I cannot give you an answer, but I can share my experience of OneDrive.
I was in the same situation and I had no choice but to revise Do files. Neither Microsoft nor our IT could help me.
I recommend you to use other text editors (with replace 'all' option) if you have a long script.
C

[William Lisowski]

You may find the filefilter command helpful. Something like the following.

rename task1.do old_task1.do
filefilter old_task1.do task1.do, from("D:\") to("D:\OneDrive_CompanyName\")

should create a new version of task1.do replacing "D:" with "D:\OneDrive_CompanyName" throughout.

This can the be automated using the filelist command written by Robert Picard and available from SSC using

search filelist

to search your directories for do-files and then looping over the results.

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Alternatively you could reshuffle your drive mappings and make sure that D: maps to a folder that gets synced to the cloud.