ResetDirectory—Wolfram Documentation
resets the current working directory to its previous value.
Details
- Successive calls to ResetDirectory yield earlier and earlier current directories.
- ResetDirectory uses the directory stack given by DirectoryStack[].
- ResetDirectory removes the last element from the directory stack, and makes the second‐to‐last element current.
Examples
Basic Examples (1)
History
Introduced in 1991 (2.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1991), ResetDirectory, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResetDirectory.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1991. "ResetDirectory." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResetDirectory.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1991). ResetDirectory. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResetDirectory.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_resetdirectory, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ResetDirectory}", year="1991", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResetDirectory.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_resetdirectory, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ResetDirectory}, year={1991}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResetDirectory.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}