Error using load. Unable to read file '...'. Input cannot be a directory.

I get the error Error using load. Unable to read file '...'. Input cannot be a directory. when using

load(currentmatfile, 'example');

where currentmatfile is a string representing a path with a mat-file, e.g. 'Z:\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\folder5\folder6\XXXXXX.mat' and 'example' is the name of the variable that I want to load from the mat-file.

When doing this, I get the error "Error using load. Unable to read file 'Z:\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\folder5\folder6\XXXXXX.mat'. Input cannot be a directory.".

How do I solve this problem? What is the cause?

Answer 1

[Sudhakar Shinde]

1. The mat file you are using this need to be in matlab current path. You can add folders and subfolders in path manually by right clicking on folder.

Then you can use

load('Data.mat', 'example');

2. Alternatively you can use command lines to get mat file .

[file,path] = uigetfile('*.mat');
currentfile=[path,file];
load(currentfile,'example')

See the example variable loaded in workspace.