Re: How change $AddOnsDirectory
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- Subject: [mg41130] Re: [mg41128] How change $AddOnsDirectory
- From: jmt <jmt at dxdydz.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 02:40:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Winnt and XP are multi-users systems : somewhere you should have a
directory (hidden directory) in your home directory, containing your
own preferences (i.e. you are not "all users").
This is the place where you can modify the $AddOnsDirectory path.
On Sunday 04 May 2003 09:57, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> How do I supply a permanent new location for $AddOnsDirectory. This
> is under Windows XP.
>
> The HelpBrower documentation under "File Layout" seems to say that if
> I set a value for $AddOnsDirectory in an init.m file located
> somewhere on the ConfigurationPath, that value should be used.
>
> So in [top directory]\Configuration\FrontEnd -- where [top directory]
> is the directory containing Mathematica.exe -- I created a file
> init.m. In that file I tried, separately, all three of the
> following:
>
> $AddOnsDirectory="D:/Math/AddOnsMma"
>
> $AddOnsDirectory="D:\\Math\\AddOnsMma"
>
> $AddOnsDirectory=FrontEnd`FileName[{"D:", "Math", "AddOnsMma"}]
>
> None of these seems to have any effect, however: Once I open
> Mathematica, the value of $AddOnsDirectory is still its original
> value, namely,
>
> "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica"
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- How change $AddOnsDirectory
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye@attbi.com>
- How change $AddOnsDirectory