Google Drive

[Federico Nutarelli]

Hi Statalister,

I connect to a topic issued yesterday. So basically I have a Mac and would like to store a series of datasets (.dta format) into google drive. To do that of course I need the path which apparently is not given by Drive (at least I cannot find the path in the usual way: /Users/John_Smith/...). Is there a way to save, replace .dta files into google drive? And if not, is there an alternative way of storing hundreds (i.e. about 800) of datasets somewhere (not Dropbox) in a way that they do not occupy space in my PC?

To be more concrete, what I am doing is the following loop which stores databases for each couple:

local ctry "aitaly belgium france germany greece ireland netherlands poland portugal sweden uk"
local ctrytwo "aitaly belgium france germany greece ireland netherlands poland portugal sweden uk"

tab molecule, gen(dummy_mol_)
levelsof molecu, local(levels)

*THE FOLLOWING IS THE RIGHT LOOP:
foreach l of local levels {
    foreach i in `ctry'{ 
        foreach d in `ctrytwo'{
            use "/Users/federiconutarelli/Dropbox/dato_per_molecola/`l'_generics.dta", clear
            keep if ctry == "`i'" | ctry == "`d'"
            if "`i'" == "`d'"{
            display as err "Countries are equal"
            continue
            }
            save "/Users/federiconutarelli/Dropbox/terzo_lavoro/`l'_`i'_`d'.dta", replace
        }
    }
}

Now the save statement saves them on Dropbox, the problem being that the computer slows down a lot and takes a lot to store them (also occupying a lot of space, which prevents me from doing anything else in Dropbox). I would like to do something like:

 save "/Users/federiconutarelli/Google Drive/`l'_`i'_`d'.dta", replace

which I read from another issue that is infeasible.

Thank you,

Federico