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Re: How can I change the default path for the function "Put"?

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• Subject: [mg104651] Re: How can I change the default path for the function "Put"?
• From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
• Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:14:13 -0500 (EST)
• References: <hcu57v$lvv$1@smc.vnet.net>

Jian wrote:
> In my computer, when I use "Put" (or ">>") to save some data to the
> computer, Mathematica automatically outputs the data to a network hard
> disk, where the "My Documents" folder is.  Although I know I can check
> this path using "$InitialDirectory" command, I do not know how to
> change it to a local folder.  Would anyone help me, PLZ?  Thanks!

Use SetDirectory to set the directory to anywhere you like.

SetDirectory["full path here"]

Even easier, you can set the directory to the directory where the 
current notebook is saved to.

SetDirectory[NotebookDirectory[]]

I often put that statement in an initialization cell at the top of my 
notebook if I am going to a lot of importing or exporting.

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HPR