RE: setdirectory doesn't work.anymore
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg48172] RE: [mg48160] setdirectory doesn't work.anymore
- From: "DrBob" <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 03:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Put your cursor in the input cell (the one that doesn't evaluate properly),
and push Ctrl-Shift-E (or menu item Format>Show Expression) to see what's
really in the cell. It should be the following (on a Windows machine):
Cell[BoxData[
StyleBox[
RowBox[{
RowBox[{
"SetDirectory", "[",
"\"\<C:\\Biology\\temp\>\"",
"]"}], ";"}],
FormatType->StandardForm,
FontColor->GrayLevel[
0]]], "Input"]
If it isn't, either make the corrections in this view and toggle back to the
other view, or retype the expression in a new cell.
DrBob
www.eclecticdreams.net
-----Original Message-----
From: sean kim [mailto:sean_incali at yahoo.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg48172] [mg48160] setdirectory doesn't work.anymore
hello group.
a strange thing.
below works fine.
In[138]:= Directory[]
Out[138]= C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\5.0
but if i go,
In[139]:= SetDirectory["C:\Biology\temp"];
From In[139]:=
SetDirectory::cdir:
Cannot set current directory to C:\Biology\ emp.
i took out the t (C:\Biology\ emp) and added blank spaces in there to
show what i see on my screen.
That command used to work fine on my machine. so i thought maybe it
was the folder propperty, so i made sure the folder wasn't read-only
and it wasn't.
and the same code works fine on my home machine as well.
Did I somehow change the some type of global option someplace? how do
i change it back so that i can change the working directory?
any thoughts will be thoroughly appreciated.
thanks all in advance.
sean