Re: notebook directory
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- Subject: [mg61683] Re: notebook directory
- From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:01:37 -0400 (EDT)
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Hannes Kessler wrote: > Dear mathematica-experts, > > its a typical situation that I want to analyze some data files in the > same directory where the mathematica-notebook is located. > Is there a possibility to open the notebook and set the current working > directory in a different way than issuing a manual > SetDirectory["...\specific_directory"] command? > > Ideally, there should be some something like a state variable > $NotebookDirectory one could refer to. This gets a FrontEnd`FileName of the full path to your notebook: "FileName" /. NotebookInformation[EvaluationNotebook[] And this will extract the directory, convert it to just a string and set the directory accordingly: SetDirectory[ ToFileName[First["FileName" /. NotebookInformation[EvaluationNotebook[]]]] ] hth albert