is a global option that determines which directories are searched when a specified notebook is needed.


NotebookPath
is a global option that determines which directories are searched when a specified notebook is needed.
Details

- The front end searches the directories specified by NotebookPath if it needs to locate a notebook whose pathname has not been given explicitly. Three such cases are when you click a hyperlink pointing to an external notebook, when you try to open a notebook listed at the bottom of the File menu on Windows or under the File ▶ Open Recent submenu on Macintosh, and when you specify a stylesheet that is not found on StyleSheetPath.
- The directories to be searched are specified using the FrontEnd`FileName function in terms of global variables such as $InstallationDirectory or $HomeDirectory. Typical directories included in NotebookPath are FrontEnd`FileName[{$UserBaseDirectory,"SystemFiles","FrontEnd","Palettes"}], FrontEnd`FileName[{$InstallationDirectory}], and FrontEnd`FileName[{$HomeDirectory}].
See Also
History
Introduced in 1996 (3.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1996), NotebookPath, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPath.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1996. "NotebookPath." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPath.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). NotebookPath. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPath.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_notebookpath, author="Wolfram Research", title="{NotebookPath}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPath.html}", note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_notebookpath, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={NotebookPath}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookPath.html}, note=[Accessed: 08-August-2025]}