Help with uploading Shapefiles

[Omotola Oladapo]

Hi guys, I do not know why Stata can't locate this file even though is in my download folder. I also copied the name directly from there to Stata.

[Mike Lacy]

A reasonable guess here is that your file gb_100km is located elsewhere than your working directory. Because you did not give a fully qualified filename, Stata has no choice but to assume the current working directory as its location. (See -help pwd) and -help cd_ if you're not already comfortable with this idea.) Stata has no way to know that this file is in your "downloads" folder, and that folder has no particular meaning or significance to Stata and most other non-Microsoft programs. You'd help yourself if you made a practice to always download files to some logically meaningfully location (e.g., the directory for this particular project), rather than defaulting to some stock download folder. (As a Windows user, I'd nevertheless say that encouraging the idea of a default "downloads folder" is a bad idea.)

In the future, you'll want to avoid posting images on StataList, as explained in the FAQ for new members. Material from the results window can much more easily be read by others if copy/pasted as text and put between code tags.

[Omotola Oladapo]

Thank you so much Mike, I will look into the directory path and get it sorted and will always put the code in when I need assist and not screenshot.