Hi Everyone,

I was troubled by an error code r(608) when I run a "reshape long" a large size of data. There is nothing wrong with the reshape command, and it runs fine at the command prompt (took a long while though). However, if I run the same line of code from the do editor, I received the following error: file XX.tmp cannot be modified or erased; likely cause is read-only directory or file." Same error appear if I run the entire do file which contains the line of reshape. I looked up in the forum, and tried to add a sleep command after the reshape command; sadly that did not help. Because I need to execute the reshape on 12 data set, I would very much like to avoid the error r(608) and run it in a do file. Do you have any suggestion?

Best,
Karen