Dropbox and STATA

[Federico Nutarelli]

Hello everyone,

thanks in advance for replying. I have a problem with directories. I am not really good in dealing with dropbox, but actually have a project in which I make wide use of it. The problem is that when I try to import a dataset inside the dropbox folder in STATA, STATA comes up with such an error message:

file /Users/federiconutarelli 1/Dropbox/us_retail_copia/DATi US\US retail.csv not found

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Federico

[Attaullah Shah]

If your file or directory address has spaces, the address should be enclosed in double quotes. e.g

"/Users/federiconutarelli 1/Dropbox/us_retail_copia/DATi US\US retail.csv"

Second, I do not see the full address with drive letter, Shouldn't it be like

"C:/Users/federiconutarelli 1/Dropbox/us_retail_copia/DATi US\US retail.csv"

if the DropBox is installed in drive C

[Richard Williams]

If Attaullah's suggestions don't work, show us the actual command you used and how Stata responded. When we don't actually see the command and output it is much harder to diagnose the problem.

[Federico Nutarelli]

Thank you for the replies.
Actually to worked but it seems that the mistake was in the slashes. I mean when I put

"/Users/federiconutarelli 1/Desktop/Dropbox/DATi_US/   
 US retail.csv  
 "

everything worked fine. Many thanks again for the great suggestions!