Error r(603) has suddenly started to occur in Mac OS

[Jamie Hamilton]

Running Stata 17 on Mac OS 11.6.6.

Until two days ago (1/6/22) I was able to run the following commands:

mi est, saving(miest, replace): reg TargetCost_Val TargetCC* BuyerCost_Val
quietly mi predict TGVPred using miest

Now the first of the two lines fails with

file miest.ster could not be opened

The coding has not been altered in any way. So what could have changed to have caused the file access to fail where previously it functioned without a problem?

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

There was a recent update released on June 1st. If you have updated to that new version, that could be the issue. If so, you are better off contacting Stata Technical Support with further details.

Based on what you say here, I'm not able to help you as I don't use a Mac and your previous runs were successful, suggesting the problem is with your OS or Stata.