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How change $AddOnsDirectory

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• Subject: [mg41128] How change $AddOnsDirectory
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
• Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 03:57:04 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu
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How do I supply a permanent new location for $AddOnsDirectory.  This is 
under Windows XP.

The HelpBrower documentation under "File Layout" seems to say that if I 
set a value for $AddOnsDirectory in an init.m file located somewhere on 
the ConfigurationPath, that value should be used.

So in [top directory]\Configuration\FrontEnd -- where [top directory] is 
the directory containing Mathematica.exe -- I created a file init.m.  In 
that file I tried, separately, all three of the following:

   $AddOnsDirectory="D:/Math/AddOnsMma"

   $AddOnsDirectory="D:\\Math\\AddOnsMma"

   $AddOnsDirectory=FrontEnd`FileName[{"D:", "Math", "AddOnsMma"}]

None of these seems to have any effect, however:  Once I open 
Mathematica, the value of $AddOnsDirectory is still its original value, 
namely,

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica"




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