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

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• Subject: [mg43516] Re: [mg43458] Re: [mg43423] Finding the Path to/Directory for the current EvaluationNotebook?
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:40:17 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Neither this solution, nor a longer one previously posted by 
Yasvir-Tesiram, works for me (Mathematica 5.0, under Windows XP): In 
both cases the result returned is a directory of a currently-open 
palette, namely, a palette that has is always-on-top.

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