#### 97.1.7 loadfile: failed to load `<filename>`

This error message normally indicates that the file exists, but can not be read. If the file is present and readable there is another possible for this error message: Maxima can compile packages to native binary files in order to make them run faster. If after compiling the file something in the system has changed in a way that makes it incompatible with the binary the binary the file cannot be loaded any more. Maxima normally puts binary files it creates from its own packages in a folder named `binary` within the folder whose name it is printed after typing:

    (%i1) maxima_userdir;
    (%o1)                 /home/gunter/.maxima

If this directory is missing maxima will recreate it again as soon as it has to compile a package.

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