Stata not saving correctly

[Jake Magel]

Hello, I am making changes to a data file then saving under a different name. The file with the new name "demo_working" is not being saved in the same directory (I don't know where it is being saved) from which I took the original file "DEMO_CHARGE_RAW_jm"

Below is my code. When I open up the demo_working file in the folder "jm_working" it is not saved with the changes that I made.

Any suggestions?



use "/Users/u0521032/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-UniversityofPittsburgh/LeaRRn-Jake/jm_working/DEMO_CHARGE_RAW_jm.dta", clear

format %16.0f PAT_ENC_CSN_ID // format enc id

rename *, lower // all lower case

capture drop dos_rc //making into usable date
gen dos_rc = date(orig_service, "DM20Y")
format dos_rc %td


keep pat_enc_csn_id - race visit_number dos_rc

sort pat_enc_csn_id visit_number dos_rc

order visit_number, after (pat_enc_csn_id)

capture drop n_1
by pat_enc_csn_id: gen n_1 = _n

keep if n_1 == 1

save demo_working, replace /// removed payment variable

[Nick Cox]

That dataset will be saved in the current directory, which isn't necessarily the same as the directory with the original dataset.

pwd

will tell you where that is. If it is too late to do that, I guess you'll need to use Unix to find out where it is.

[Jake Magel]

Thanks.

[Jake Magel]

I changed the director to jm_working and when I use the command save demo_working it still does not save it as demo_working. In fact it leaves the name as DEMO_CHARGE_RAW_jm as the title of the data file in the open Stata window. Any thoughts?

[Hemanshu Kumar]

Your new code, please?

[Jake Magel]

cd "/Users/u0521032/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-UniversityofPittsburgh/LeaRRn-Jake/jm_working"
/Users/u0521032/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-UniversityofPittsburgh/LeaRRn-Jake/jm_working



use "/Users/u0521032/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-UniversityofPittsburgh/LeaRRn-Jake/jm_working/DEMO_CHARGE_RAW_jm.dta", clear

format %16.0f PAT_ENC_CSN_ID // format enc id

rename *, lower // all lower case

capture drop dos_rc //making into usable date
gen dos_rc = date(orig_service, "DM20Y")
format dos_rc %td


keep pat_enc_csn_id - race visit_number dos_rc

sort pat_enc_csn_id visit_number dos_rc

order visit_number, after (pat_enc_csn_id)

capture drop n_1
by pat_enc_csn_id: gen n_1 = _n

keep if n_1 == 1

save demo_working, replace /// removed payment variable

[Hemanshu Kumar]

Oh the problem is the /// at the end of your save command. Use two slashes instead. Three slashes means that it is waiting for you to enter another line, which it will then treat as part of your save command. See also

help comments

[Jake Magel]

No it does not and when I use the pwc command it says it is saving in the correct folder. Never happened to me before

[Jake Magel]

Sorry pwd command

[Hemanshu Kumar]

I realised the problem after I posted #7 asking you if there was an error. See the edited version of #7 above.

[Jake Magel]

ARGH! What a mistake. Thank you for catching that. It was really perplexing me.