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Re: notebook directory

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg61683] Re: notebook directory
• From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
• Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:01:37 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <djk2a8$h3o$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hannes Kessler wrote:

> Dear mathematica-experts,
> 
> its a typical situation that I want to analyze some data files in the
> same directory where the mathematica-notebook is located.
> Is there a possibility to open the notebook and set the current working
> directory in a different way than issuing a manual
> SetDirectory["...\specific_directory"] command?
> 
> Ideally, there should be some something like a state variable
> $NotebookDirectory one could refer to.

This gets a FrontEnd`FileName of the full path to your notebook:

"FileName" /. NotebookInformation[EvaluationNotebook[]

And this will extract the directory, convert it to just a string and set
the directory accordingly:

SetDirectory[
ToFileName[First["FileName" /. NotebookInformation[EvaluationNotebook[]]]]
]

hth

albert