Re: setdirectory doesn't work.anymore
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- Subject: [mg48231] Re: setdirectory doesn't work.anymore
- From: sean_incali at yahoo.com (sean kim)
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 02:42:06 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I figured it out. i'm not sure if it's right though. i tried that crtl shift e thing and the inputs were exactly same. i change the commands from SetDirectory["C:\Biology\temp"]; to SetDirectory["C:\Biology\Temp"]; after renaming the folder temp to Temp and it worked. that is so weird, and to thnk that used to work fine... mayeb my install is gone bad... sean_incali at yahoo.com (sean kim) wrote in message news:<c83rvl$lq0$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > 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