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Re: Newbie Qn: Change Directory

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  • Subject: [mg105528] Re: [mg105505] Newbie Qn: Change Directory
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 01:33:26 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
  • References: <200912051035.FAA08879@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Nearly everything!

First, from your use of the backslash as a path name separator, it seems 
you're running on Windows.  Then the format to begin an absolute path is 
"d:\" and not "d\:".

Second, the argument to SetDirectory should be a string.

Third, the backslash character is interpreted as an escape, so either 
double it to indicate an actual backslash or, better yet, use the 
"universal" file-name separator /.

Thus either of:

   SetDirectory["d:\\Jim Directory\\Mathematica"]

   SetDirectory["d:/Jim Directory/Mathematica"]

Jimmy S. Lim wrote:
> 
> I tried changing the new default directory by typing:
> SetDirectory[d \ : Jim Directory\Mathematica]
> 
> and its not working. What did i type wrong? Thanks.

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