MATLAB: Is the toolbar missing from the figure windows in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

Question

Ususally, figure windows have a toolbar showing by default. However, recently, these have disappeared, and I have to do a convoluted series of enabling and disabling other toolbars, such as the camera toolbar, to get it back.

Restarting MATLAB, or even my computer does not help.

Answer 1

This can be caused by corrupted preferences.

The preferences folder location can be found with the following command at the MATLAB prompt:

prefdir

To refresh your preferences:

1) Close all sessions of MATLAB

2) Rename your MATLAB preferences folder (e.g. to R2007a_old)

3) Restart MATLAB

On launching, MATLAB won't find the old preferences, and will regenerate the preferences folder anew.