MATLAB: Save image to chosen folder

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I want to be able to save a .fig to a folder of the users choosing. Right now the user can choose the name of the file, but not which folder it is saved to. Currently it is saved by diffult to curr dir. What can I do?

fignew = figure('Visible','off'); % Invisible figure
newAxes = copyobj(handles.T2img,fignew); % Copy the appropriate axes
set(newAxes,'Position',get(groot,'DefaultAxesPosition')); % The original position is copied too, so adjust it.
set(fignew,'CreateFcn','set(gcbf,''Visible'',''on'')'); % Make it visible upon loading
saveas(fignew, uiputfile());
delete(fignew);

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You need to get the second (path) output from uiputfile:

[useName,usePath] = uiputfile();
saveas(fignew, fullfile(usePath,useName))

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You might want to take a look at this contribution:

https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/73103-copyuiaxes

Regarding the saving as png: I guess that it does not work because fileName already has the fig extension.

Could you give this a try:

fileName = fullfile([pathway,'\data','\fig-file\'], 'WorstLocation');

saveas(figScan, [fileName '.png'], 'png');

savefig(figScan, [fileName '.fig']);

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This might work. You create a new (temporary and invisible) figure, and then use COPYOBJ to copy that axes to the new figure. You could then save the new figure to a FIG file (here "test.fig").

%%1. Make sample figure
handles.f = figure;
handles.axes1 = subplot(211);
handles.axes2 = subplot(223);
handles.axes3 = subplot(224);
plot(handles.axes1,rand(5));
imagesc(handles.axes2,rand(10,10));
title(handles.axes2, 'My IMAGESC');
xlabel(handles.axes2,'X values');
ylabel(handles.axes2,'Y values');
surf(handles.axes3,peaks);
%%2. Copy axes to new figure and save
outputFileName = 'test.fig';
fignew = figure('Visible','off'); % Invisible figure
newAxes = copyobj(handles.axes2,fignew); % Copy the appropriate axes
set(newAxes,'Position',get(groot,'DefaultAxesPosition')); % The original position is copied too, so adjust it.
set(fignew,'CreateFcn','set(gcbf,''Visible'',''on'')'); % Make it visible upon loading
savefig(fignew,'test.fig');
delete(fignew);

If there is a colorbar, you'll need to do some extra work (you have to copy that as well using COPYOBJ since it is not a child of the axes).

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