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SetDirectory, Import

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg55813] SetDirectory, Import
• From: pshoplifter at yahoo.com (pshoplifter)
• Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 05:09:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I had a number of files to Import which at first had the whole (long)
path in the filename. This worked fine, but looks ugly, so I decided
to use SetDirectory to set it once and then have the filenames in the
import commands without the path.

It could not find the files so I started testing:

SetDirectory["d:\\blahblah"];
Directory[]
FileNames["*.png"]
Import["image.png"]
Directory[]
FileNames["*.png"]

The output is:

d:\blahblah
{image.png}
File not found
<some other directory from mathematica>
{}

Does the Import command change the current directory?
Any help appreciated.