Re: How to make Mathematica automatically save a notebook to the
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- Subject: [mg113443] Re: How to make Mathematica automatically save a notebook to the
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Nasser, This is not what I get. A notebook that already exists is always saved to its original location. A new notebook will give a save popup that is in the folder most recently used to save a nb, but you can navigate to wherever you want. Kevin On 10/28/2010 4:27 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > This is the scenario: > > It seems to me the current behavior of Mathematica wrt to how it handles > this matter is not logical. > > Consider this: > > I opened notebook folderA/a.nb, then opened another notebook > fodlerB/b.nb. So now have 2 notebooks open. > > Did some editing to a.nb, then did File->Save > > Where do you expect a.nb to saved to? folderA ofcourse ! but no, > Mathematica saves a.nb to folderB ! because that was the the folder I > opened a notebook from last. > > Does this make any sense? Should'nt the notebook be saved to the same > place it was opened from? This can cause one to lose changes made, and > it happend to me. Becuase I did not notice the notebook was saved to a > different folder, and next time I started a new session, and opened > a.nb, the changes I made were not there. > > Is there an option to have Mathematica change this behavior to the > logical behavior of saving the notebook to the same folder it was opened > from unless otherwise told to? > > Right now, each time I want to save a notebook, I have to do File->SAVE > AS, and navigate to the orginal folder the notebook lives in and have to > keep answering the question asking me if I am sure I want to overwrite > the notebook, which is scary sometimes. > > I am sure someone will try to explain to me that this current behavior > is completely logical and all that, but for me, it completely makes no > sense at all. > > ps. I looked at preferences, and do not see anything there to change this. > > Thanks, > --Nasser > > >