$UserBaseDirectory (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$UserBaseDirectory gives the base directory in which user-specific files to be loaded by Mathematica are conventionally placed.

Mathematica File Organization (Mathematica Tutorial)

A full Mathematica installation consists of thousands of separate files, arranged in several hundred directories under the main installation directory. The location of the ...

Naming and Finding Files (Mathematica Tutorial)

The precise details of the naming of files differ from one computer system to another. Nevertheless, Mathematica provides some fairly general mechanisms that work on all ...

Configuration Files for Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica stores preference settings and initialization data in two directories, $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory. Within each of these directories are several ...

Automatic Loading of Import/Export ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

In addition to the interfaces of Import and Export, Mathematica 8 comes with an autoloading mechanism that simplifies the registration of formats used by the Import and ...

$UserDocumentsDirectory (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$UserDocumentsDirectory gives your default "documents" directory.

AddOnHelpPath (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AddOnHelpPath is a global option that specifies which directories are searched for additional help files used within the help system.

Input and Construct File Names in ... (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica provides a simple and consistent method for accessing and using files. In addition to inserting a file path that is specific to your operating system, Mathematica ...

FileType (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FileType["file"] gives the type of a file, typically File, Directory, or None.

$HomeDirectory (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$HomeDirectory gives your "home" directory.