Unable to write to MAT-file C:\...\gstep.mat

[streetjax]

Hello Johannes!
I think I have a problem with the

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mode_compute=5

option of the

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estimation

routine of DYNARE.
the problem I always get is:

Error using save
Unable to write to MAT-file C:\Users\...\gstep.mat

File may be corrupt.

Error in mr_gstep (line 85)
save('gstep.mat','x','h1','f0')

I tried deleting the mentioned file, but it seems not working. I have to add that I am using today's unstable version of Dynare. (master-2017-03-22-76097a7)
I have read in an old post that something similar may be a bug.
Can you please check it out?
And now that you are on it, tell me what can I change (or look at) on my estimation? I really would appreciate it. : )
Yours cordially,
ST

[jpfeifer]

This does not sound like a bug, but rather like a problem of insufficient write permissions for your Matlab session. Are you sure you have the necessary user rights for writing in that directory?

[streetjax]

Hello Johannes!
I appreciate very much the time you spend by looking at my problem (and everyone else's).
Thank you very much. I know it's a bit late, but I think it's better better later than never.
Have a nice day. : )

By the way, I did not knew how to sole the problem, so I just used another

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mode_compute

option. I did not knew how to further modify the permissions, specially considering that I was the admin account on both computers I tried. (you don't have to answer to this, this message was only to tell you thanks)

[jpfeifer]

Thanks for the kind words.

What you could have done in the unstable version is disable the saving of files during mode finding via

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optim=('SaveFiles',0)