Re: $UserBaseDirectory
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- Subject: [mg83095] Re: [mg83063] $UserBaseDirectory
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:45:20 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Presumably the Help system didn't say since that's a WINDOWS environment
variable. From the Windows XP Start menu....
Select Settings
Select Control Panel
Double-click System control panel
Click Advanced tab on System control panel window.
Click Environment Variables button near bottom of the Advanced tab.
In the lower* of the two panes in the Environment Variables window
that opens, click the New button.
Fill out the New System Variable window's dialog with the
Variable name: MATHEMATICA_USERBASE
Variable value: C:\MyMathDirectory
Now click the OK button there, then the OK button on the
Environment Variables window, then the OK button on the
System Properties window.
(Re)start Mathematica.
[If you have more than one user, you could instead use the upper of the
two panes and add the new environment variable as a per-user variable.]
There are other ways to get to the System Control Panel; I gave just one.
thomas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wold like to change the default location of the $UserBaseDirectory.
> All I can find in the documentation and in the forum is that I need to
> set the environmental variable MATHEMATICA_USERBASE upon startup, but
> it doesn't say anywhere how to do that.
>
> What - explicitly - do I have to do?
>
> Let's say, I want to set $UserBaseDirectory to C:\MyMathDirectory.
>
> If I am successful, do I need to copy the directory structure from the
> old directory to the new one in order for Mathematica to run smoothly
> afterwards?
>
> Windows XP Professional
> Mathematica 6.0.1
>
> Thank you
> Thomas
>
>
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