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Re: Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?

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• Subject: [mg43458] Re: [mg43423] Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?
• From: jmt <jmt at dxdydz.net>
• Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Try this :
SetDirectory[
  DirectoryName[
    ToFileName["FileName"/.NotebookInformation[SelectedNotebook[]]]]]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:36, AES/newspost wrote:
  > I want to put a SetDirectory (?) command at the beginning of a notebook
  > that will reset the working directory to the folder containing the
  > notebook itself.
  >
  > Objective is to have the results of any Exports, OpenWrites, etc,
  > executed within that notebook automatically be directed to that same
  > folder -- even if I close the notebook, rename it in the Finder (in Mac
  > jargon), and re-open it.
  >
  > Or, if I Copy or Move the notebook to a different folder and later open
  > it there, Exports or OpenWrites should go to that new, different folder.

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  • Re: Re: Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?
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  • Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?
    • From: AES/newspost <siegman@stanford.edu>