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Re: Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?

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  • Subject: [mg43482] Re: [mg43423] Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?
  • From: Michael Schreiber <michaelschreiber at mac.com>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:38:44 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

NotebookSave[SelectedNotebook[]];
SetDirectory[ToFileName[Options[$FrontEnd,NotebooksMenu][[-1,-1,-1,- 
1,1,1]]]]

On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 10:36 Europe/Vienna, AES/newspost wrote:

> I want to put a SetDirectory (?) command at the beginning of a notebook
> that will reset the working directory to the folder containing the
> notebook itself.
>
> Objective is to have the results of any Exports, OpenWrites, etc,
> executed within that notebook automatically be directed to that same
> folder -- even if I close the notebook, rename it in the Finder (in Mac
> jargon), and re-open it.
>
> Or, if I Copy or Move the notebook to a different folder and later open
> it there, Exports or OpenWrites should go to that new, different  
> folder.
>
>
M F Schreiber
Heimscholleg 26 Wien, A1130 Austria Europe
Michael at Schreiber.at


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