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Re: $UserBaseDirectory

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  • Subject: [mg83095] Re: [mg83063] $UserBaseDirectory
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:45:20 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
  • References: <200711091014.FAA11078@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Presumably the Help system didn't say since that's a WINDOWS environment 
variable.  From the Windows XP Start menu....

   Select Settings
   Select Control Panel
   Double-click System control panel
   Click Advanced tab on System control panel window.
   Click Environment Variables button near bottom of the Advanced tab.
   In the lower* of the two panes in the Environment Variables window
     that opens, click the New button.
   Fill out the New System Variable window's dialog with the

     Variable name:  MATHEMATICA_USERBASE
     Variable value: C:\MyMathDirectory

   Now click the OK button there, then the OK button on the
     Environment Variables window, then the OK button on the
     System Properties window.

   (Re)start Mathematica.

[If you have more than one user, you could instead use the upper of the 
two panes and add the new environment variable as a per-user variable.]

There are other ways to get to the System Control Panel; I gave just one.

thomas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wold like to change the default location of the $UserBaseDirectory.
> All I can find in the documentation and in the forum is that I need to
> set the environmental variable MATHEMATICA_USERBASE upon startup, but
> it doesn't say anywhere how to do that.
> 
> What - explicitly -  do I have to do?
> 
> Let's say, I want to set $UserBaseDirectory to C:\MyMathDirectory.
> 
> If I am successful, do I need to copy the directory structure from the
> old directory to the new one in order for Mathematica to run smoothly
> afterwards?
> 
> Windows XP Professional
> Mathematica 6.0.1
> 
> Thank you
> Thomas
> 
> 

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