Hello everyone,
I am working on a project which takes several INPUT from several folders disseminated in my hard-drive.
To avoid to specify every single path from where to take the input, I wanted to put link-folders in one separate folder which would be my unique path.
For instance, I would set the main path in the MAIN_FOLDER and then inside, I would put linked sub_folders in which data files are located.
Unfortunately, it seems that STATA doesn't recognize the linked-folders as a directory and thus I cannot open them with the usual code:
STATA doesn't find at all the sub_linked_folder.
I have dug on the web to find an answer but could not find any. Does anyone know a solution for my issue or any useful workaround? Maybe something like automatically identifying the path of the linked folder and use that as the path or something like that?
I hope to find an answer here on the forum.
All the best and thanks in advance
I am working on a project which takes several INPUT from several folders disseminated in my hard-drive.
To avoid to specify every single path from where to take the input, I wanted to put link-folders in one separate folder which would be my unique path.
For instance, I would set the main path in the MAIN_FOLDER and then inside, I would put linked sub_folders in which data files are located.
Unfortunately, it seems that STATA doesn't recognize the linked-folders as a directory and thus I cannot open them with the usual code:
Code:
use "$path\MAIN_FOLDER\sub_linked_folder\mydta.dta", clear
I have dug on the web to find an answer but could not find any. Does anyone know a solution for my issue or any useful workaround? Maybe something like automatically identifying the path of the linked folder and use that as the path or something like that?
I hope to find an answer here on the forum.
All the best and thanks in advance
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