Unable to import .DTA into Eviews8 Student Ed. for MAC

[mgomezgo]

Good day,

I was previously working on PC and Eviews worked fine, but I switched to Mac and I'm having lots of trouble to work on the student version I just bought... :?

I need to import a database available only in .dta format, getting the following:
File'Z:\users\...\dropbox\filename.dta' has an unrecognized or unsupported version number.

I then tried converting it to .xlsx to then import it to Eviews, I did so using StatTransfer. With the .xlsx, I tested it in excel and the file is functional... I tried importing data as foreign workfile, with the following error Message:
File'Z:\Users\...\Library\ApplicationSupport\IHS\Eviews\temp\evxlsx\xl\worksheets\sheet1.xml does not match expected format

I have a tight deadline and I need to open that DB and start working with it... is it a problem with Mac? with Eviews for Mac? Please advise at your earliest convenience...

Thanks!

MG

[startz]

EViews won't read the most recent Stata files. Of course, neither will old versions of Stata. If StatTransfer can convert to an older version of Stata, that might be the easiest way to go. (Or open the file and Stata and save as an older version.)

[EViews Jason]

I would also suggest saving the dta file to an .xls (old excel format) file. The xls format is not as flexible and therefore more strict when compared to xlsx files.