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Re: Re: init.m of FrontEnd in M5.2

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• Subject: [mg69528] Re: [mg69448] Re: [mg69428] init.m of FrontEnd in M5.2
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

But what the regular docs don't, I believe,tell you is how to change the 
location of $UserBaseDirectory.  In Windows, at least, there are system 
environment variables you can set, in this case, MATHEMATICA_USERBASE.

By changing the default you can, for example, keep Mathematica 
configuration files in a partition completely separate from the Windows 
OS, which makes everything more granular and, to my mind, simplifies 
maintenance.

(I really hate the way Microsoft tried to shove so much program-related 
stuff into C:\Documents and Settings.)

The system environment variables are documented in the Mathematica 
System Administration Guide, which is accessible from the Help Browser's 
"Getting Started" tab.

Chris Chiasson wrote:
> I think it is in $UserBaseDirectory/FrontEnd/init.m
> 
> On 9/12/06, Markus Huber <mhla at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Where does M52 store the information I get with
>>
>> Options@$FrontEnd?
>>
>> M4 and M41 (Windows) store it in Mathematia\4.0\init.m in my user directory.
>> Information about where M42-M52 in different operating systems get this
>> info from would be helpful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Markus Huber
>>
>>
> 
> 

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• References:
  • init.m of FrontEnd in M5.2
    • From: Markus Huber <mhla@gmx.at>
  • Re: init.m of FrontEnd in M5.2
    • From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>