{"id":1642,"date":"2015-06-01T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2015-06-15T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T14:51:40","slug":"setting-initial-matlab-working-folder-to-last-folder-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/06\/01\/setting-initial-matlab-working-folder-to-last-folder-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Initial MATLAB Working Folder to Last Folder Used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In release 2014b there is a new preference that lets you set MATLAB&#8217;s initial working folder to be the last folder used in the previous MATLAB session. Here I show when it can be useful and when you can&#8217;t use it.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"4152142625001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/06\/01\/setting-initial-matlab-working-folder-to-last-folder-used\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/63cdb658-8831-47da-a61b-378fb499e033\/ae4d6018-3c27-4b02-afa3-fa422ed4a4d8\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">1:43<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>In release 2014b there is a new preference that lets you set MATLAB&#8217;s initial working folder to be the last folder used in the previous MATLAB session. Here I show when it can be useful and&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/06\/01\/setting-initial-matlab-working-folder-to-last-folder-used\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}