MATLAB: Question of automatically creating MATLAB folder

startup

Every time I open MATLAB, it creates a MATLAB folder automatically for me under ~/Documents/. Is there any way that to stop it doing this? I use Mac OS X 10.10 and I set default startup path to be a custom path. Thank you!

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Try:

 >> userpath /my/custom/location

Then restart MATLAB.

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You should use setenv() to set the path.

Pay attention that usually you want to add something to the path and not override it. Hence do something like:

PATH_SEP = pathsep();
myDir = '/some/dir/in/my/mac/';
currPath = getenv('PATH');
setenv('PATH', [currPath, PATH_SEP, myDir]);

Of course this is the MATLAB way. You could also just use system command:

!export PATH=$PATH:/my/path

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