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Re: $UserDirectory

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg18927] Re: [mg18905] $UserDirectory
• From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
• Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:17:27 -0400
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
• References: <199907261827.OAA06161@smc.vnet.net.>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

If you set your user account's home directory, Mathematica
will use it.  Otherwise, it will default to the root
directory of your system drive, which was a bug...it should
have defaulted to your "Program Files\Common Files" directory,
which now happens in version 4.  Note this info only applies
for Windows NT; Win95/8 always use the "Program Files\Common Files"
directory.

Under all Windows OS's, you can override Mathematica's
default preferences directory by using the environment
variables:

MATHEMATICA_PREFERENCES

Mathematica will create a 'Mathematica\3.0' subdirectory in
the directory this environment variable designates.

Sincerely,

John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
Front End Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.

Peter Buttgereit wrote:
> 
> Dear Collegues
> 
> I would like to have my Mathematica 3.0 User Directory (containing
> password and add-on packages) on a NT 4SP5 System put into my personal
> folder.
> Currently, I have found no way to tell Mathematica not to use
> %NT system drive%\Mathematica\3.0\...
> Any suggestions?
> TIA,
> Peter