How to set a folder as Current folder for every startup of Matlab?

I would like to set the folder /Users/ALJI/MATLAB as a default current folder for Matlab. I mean on every start up Matlab should point to this folder. is it possible ? is there a way on Mac OS X ?

I am using Matlab r2009b on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

thank you in advance

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

On MAC OS try changing the file of userpath(), which I think defaults to your Documents directory, you can confirm this by entering

>>userpath

at the command line.

>>userpath('/Users/ALJI/MATLAB');

should persist across MATLAB sessions.

Or read this:

startup folder on MAC

[NISHANTH M P]

Thanks A lot, This Actually Solved My problem

Answer 2

[Amar Neçaibia]

To fix this problem, right click your Matlab icon, select Properties->shortcut, in "start in", delete the default folder and put the directory that you want its work.

[sajjad hosseinifard]

thank u guy

[Samuel Roberts]

yes thanks guy

[hba]

Thank you Amar!

[Jonas Gilbricht]

thanks

[Ahmad Faraz]

Quick and easy. Thanks :)

[RANJAN HALDER]

THANKS,SIR,none of the above ways worked for me .This one really resolved the problem.

[Veselin]

Nothing else works, but this. Thanks

[Yalc Copper]

thx, that really works for me.

Answer 3

[Bora Eryilmaz]

Starting in R2014b there is a MATLAB preference for doing this. Open the Preferences dialog from the Home tab in MATLAB and select MATLAB/General preferences tree node on the left side of the dialog. The General preference panel has an option to select the "Initial working folder".

Answer 4

[joshua alviando]

first, open the file location of your matlab.exe

after that, create shortcut to whatever location (example : desktop)

then right click the shortcut icon and double click properties

in Shortcut bar, you can find start in text input, just paste your desire location

finally, you can pin the shortcut to taskbar for easy access

cheers ^^

[Yuliano Moscoso Yarin]

Thanks finally is working on 2019b version

[joshua alviando]

you are welcome!

[Matthew Wiser]

Didn't work for me on Windows 10

[Mahnoor Saeed]

Work for me Windows 10.

Thankyou so much for detailed guidline :)

[Michaela Konstantinou]

is there any way to do this programmatically?

Answer 5

[Andrej Trost]

I'm using 2019a and Amar Neçaibia provided THE solution:

"To fix this problem, right click your Matlab icon, select Properties->shortcut, in "start in", delete the default folder and put the directory that you want its work."

[Matthew Wiser]

still doesn't work for me on Win10

Answer 6

[sajjad hosseinifard]

I'm using Matlab 2017b on windows 10. its startup folder is C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2017b\bin. I want to change it but I have not succeeded yet!!! I tried it with using preference settings and userpath() command but this folder is not changed!!! Please someone help me!

[Steven Lord]

Modifying the "Initial working folder" preference in the General category of the preferences for MATLAB and applying that change didn't cause MATLAB to start in that directory the next time you restarted?

[Christian Hurtig]

I have a similar problem, though I end up in the system32 folder when running matlab from the start menu. The "initial working folder" doesn't seem to change the current working directory on start up. The shortcut option suggested by Amar works.

[Marco Cadei]

I think that there might be a bug because even on my PC modifying the "Initial working folder" preference in the General category of the preferences for MATLAB and applying that change didn't cause MATLAB to start in that directory. I did what Amar suggested and it work instead. I am using MATLAB R2018a on Windows 10

Answer 7

[Yuliano Moscoso Yarin]

I have the same issues even trying differents methos like "Initial working folder" preference in the General or the start in option on propertie with outh any luck...

Answer 8

[geofo]

If you want a program to start in the directory /home/abc/def, just write in the first line of the source code:

cd /home/abc/def

The syntax works under Windows, Mac and Ubuntu but of course the directories are usually different, so you cannot have one code that just works on all platforms.

For example you can write in Windows a start path in the source code (you can write with forward or backwards slash, it works):

cd c:/mycode/maindir