I/O error

[Janine Stubbs]

As of this afternoon, I have a new error:

. webuse nhanes2, clear
I/O error
r(691);

The help doc doesn't provide clues as to how to solve this:

[P] error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Return code 691
I/O error
A filesystem error occurred during input or output. This
typically indicates a hardware or operating system failure,
although it is possible that the disk was merely full and
this state was misinterpreted as an I/O error.

(end of search)

I turned everything off, everything on, updated everything, established a secure VPN....any ideas how I can regain access?

[Joseph Coveney]

What does

webuse query

return? On my setup it's (prefix now "https://www.stata-press.com/data/r18"). If that's not what you see, then you might want to reset it with

webuse set

If for whatever reason the prefix is correct yet you cannot use webuse, then you could manually retrieve the dataset

webuse query
copy `r(prefix)'/nhanes2.dta "`c(cwd)'/nhanes2.dta"

It will at least regain access to the dataset.

[Janine Stubbs]

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for your reply to this one.

The problem was finally resolved by interrogating the portal by which Stata was connecting to the web.

Cheers,

Janine