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Re: How change $AddOnsDirectory

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• Subject: [mg41138] Re: [mg41128] How change $AddOnsDirectory
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
• Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 02:42:38 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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No, that doesn't seem to work.  I'm Administrator, and so I edited

   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application 
Data\Mathematica\FrontEnd\init.m

so that instead of beginning

SetOptions[$FrontEnd,
NotebookDirectory:> ....

it now began with:

SetOptions[$FrontEnd,
$AddOnsDirectory -> "D:\\Math\\AddOnsMma",
NotebookDirectory:> ....

This had no effect on the setting for $AddOnsDirectory!  When I 
restarted Mathematica, I had the same old value:

    $AddOnsDirectory
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica

And Mathematica rewrote the init.m to move the inserted expression
$AddOnsDirectory -> "D:\\Math\\AddOnsMma" to the end of the file:

PrivateNotebookOptions->{"DoubleBuffer"->True},
SpellingDictionaries->{"CorrectWords"->{"Eisenberg", "Amherst", "umass"}},
$AddOnsDirectory -> "D:\\Math\\AddOnsMma"
]

But still no change in what Mathematica thinks the value of 
$AddOnsDirectory is!


So I ask my original question again.


jmt wrote:
> Winnt and XP are multi-users systems : somewhere you should have a 
> directory (hidden directory) in your home directory, containing your 
> own preferences (i.e. you are not "all users").
> This is the place where you can modify the $AddOnsDirectory path.
> 
> On Sunday 04 May 2003 09:57, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 
>>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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    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye@attbi.com>