How to DumpSave all variables or the whole notebook?

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Is there a way to DumpSave all the variables in the notebook? Or better whole notebook so that opening it would restore all the definitions.

If you give the notebook its own context, it is then easy to save all definitions in that context using DumpSave. — Oleksandr R., Sep 01 '15 at 00:39
http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/menuitem/NotebookDefaultContext.html — Oleksandr R., Sep 01 '15 at 01:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 01 '15 at 11:58

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Definition of a variable in a context is done by myContext`a=100; !! Typing "a" later will not give 100!! To call the content defined above you need to specifiy the context other wise it is assumed Global`. So use myContext`a to get 100.

Do this with all the needed variables in the notebook. You can use DumpSave["file","myContext`"] to save all the definitions at once.

edited Sep 01 '15 at 11:58

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answered Sep 01 '15 at 11:24

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Does that mean that in principle all the global variables can be saved by DumpSave["file","Global"]`? – Al Guy Sep 02 '15 at 02:06
I was not sure if Globalcontext is far more than your defined variables. I just tried ?Global* and indeed I only get my defined variables/functions and not some genereal Mathematica definitions. – Eisbär Sep 02 '15 at 08:05

How to DumpSave all variables or the whole notebook?

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