Stata14 "not Stata format r(610) " error

[Alexandre Silan]

Hello,

I am currently using stata14, and I have a .dta file in my possession that I can't use as when I try I receive the "not Stata format " error.
The file has been created and saved with Stata9.
I would like to know if there are any commands I could try in order to use the file.

Thank you all.

[Nick Cox]

Try typing the file or opening the file with a text editior. It's possibly some other kind of file that has been given a .dta extension mistakenly.

type puzzling.dta

Or show us the command you are using to read it in.

[Alexandre Silan]

Hello,

Thank you for your help it works.

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Nick, Alexandre, I do have exactly the same problem with a dataset that I have created in Stata13. Could you guys instruct me how to open it. Alexandre, how did you resolve the problem? Nick, how to open it with a text editor?

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

I already tried to open the document from the dofile, but it gives me the same response:

file C:\Users\Ridvan\Documents\The Religion and Politics Project\Religion&Politics2018_Albania_Kosovo_Maced onia.dta not Stata format
r(610);

end of do-file

r(610);

[Sergiy Radyakin]

See here.

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Sergiy, I tried and here's the response:
dtaverify Religion&Politics2018_Albania_Kosovo_Macedonia.dta
file not Stata .dta file or ...
File Religion&Politics2018_Albania_Kosovo_Macedonia.dta is not a known .dta-file format. The file might be a horribly
corrupted .dta file, but the most likely explanation is simply that the file is not a .dta file.

Do you have any suggestions?

[Nick Cox]

You have already some suggestions earlier in the thread which you're ignoring.

type Religion&Politics2018_Albania_Kosovo_Macedonia.dta

Although there may be more output than you want, the first few lines are often sufficient to indicate that the file is something else.

If you created the file in Stata 13, are you now trying to open it in a version before 13?