Did I trash Mathematica installation?
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- Subject: [mg94479] Did I trash Mathematica installation?
- From: amannuc1 <Anthony.J.Mannucci at jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:39:54 -0500 (EST)
In exploring ways to clear variables in all unprotected contexts, I executed this command: ClearAll["*`*"] I now realize that was a bad idea. System variables were affected also. I use Quit[] instead now. Did I trash my Mathematica installation? The help function does not seem to work as well. For example, the search function no longer works uniformly. If I type "Lists" or "Expressions" in the top level search window, nothing happens. The help still works at some level, but I don't see search results for "related pages" anymore. The only search results I get are results for direct function names. Most hyperlinks work, but not all. Searching on non-function words does not work. It just brings me back to the Documentation center main screen. The hyperlink called "Installed Add-Ons" gives me an error message that the file I tried to open was not found. I re-installed Mathematica 6.0 the usual way, but that does not seem to help. This is for OS X 10.5.5. I've done this twice. Any advice? Thanks. By the way, I am trying to learn about init.m. I want to increase the search path at startup. I placed the one liner below in a file called init.m in the following directory /Users/mannucci/Library/Mathematica/Autoload but the path remains unmodified. init.m: $Path = Prepend[$Path, "/Users/mannucci/Documents/Mathematica/Lib"]; How does Mathematica find init.m? (The docs are not helping me here, for the reasons mentioned above). -Tony -- Tony Mannucci Supervisor, Ionospheric and Atmospheric Remote Sensing Group Mail-Stop 138-308, Tel > (818) 354-1699 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fax > (818) 393-5115 California Institute of Technology, Email > Tony.Mannucci at jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Drive, http://genesis.jpl.nasa.gov Pasadena, CA 91109