setting STATATMP environment variable in Windows 7

[David Radwin]

I am trying to set the STATATMP environment variable in Windows 7 so my tempfiles are saved there, but it doesn't seem to work.

I followed the instructions for Windows Vista in the penultimate bullet of http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/da...ment-variable/ which results in this:




But even after rebooting Windows 7, the directory does not change:



Is there a different procedure for Windows 7?

[Pete Huckelba (StataCorp)]

David,

Please make sure that the STATATMP path exists on the filesystem, else the variable assignment will fail and Stata will fall back to the standard tempfile path as you describe.

-Pete

[David Radwin]

Pete,

Thank you for the suggestion , but the path does exist on the file system. Any other ideas?



David

[Pete Huckelba (StataCorp)]

David,

One of our developers noticed something I did not, remove the double quotes from the path (in the environment variable definition) and all should be well.

-Pete

[David Radwin]

Success!

Thank you Pete, and please thank your colleague for me.

David