[Gretl-users] Re: Bundl request from dbnomics errors

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote: > OK, I got the error now. Here's my preliminary theory, based on the > following error message from gretl together with the contents of my > dotdir (C:/...blabla..../AppData/Roaming/gretl): > > File exists > *** error in function dbnomics_bundle_get_data, line 33 >> outfile --buffer=tracestr > > Apparently on Windows the "outfile --buffer" variant is working via > tempfiles. I'm seeing a lot of files in the dotdir on the pattern of > "outfile.3419N1", and indeed most of them contain the text "trying > append..." which comes from the outfile block. This happens on Linux too. The difference is that those temporary files should, in theory, be deleted once you exit gretl. Apparently, for some reason this is not happening on windows, so some sort of name collision occurs. I have no way of checking atm (and besides, I don't have a windows machine), but if this conjecture is true, it follows that (a) cleaning these files "by hand" should be an effective remedy for the time being and (b) this bug will be easy to fix in time for the next release, which is due soon. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/