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HELP!! How to load a mat file from a server

Linghe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:43:18 -0400

Hi

I am trying to load a mat file from our lab server. The directory is afp://PAR/Drobo...
Does anyone know what matlab function I can use to access the mat file?

Thanks a lot.
steven

Re: HELP!! How to load a mat file from a server

Camron Call — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:09:01 -0400

Depending on your OS, one solution is to map the server folder to a network drive and assign it a letter. That way you can use a normal path name and not some off the wall server location.

I have a server folder mapped to Y:\

You can do :

>> load 'Y:\foldername1\foldername2\filename.mat'

and it should work.

Re: HELP!! How to load a mat file from a server

Linghe — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:06:02 -0400

"Camron Call" <camroncall@gmail.cam> wrote in message <h8p39t$g2m$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Depending on your OS, one solution is to map the server folder to a network drive and assign it a letter. That way you can use a normal path name and not some off the wall server location.
>
> I have a server folder mapped to Y:\
>
> You can do :
>
> >> load 'Y:\foldername1\foldername2\filename.mat'
>
> and it should work.

Thanks for the msg. I am on MAC OS. I have mapped the server folder to my local disk ('Drobo' on the desktop). And I tried to load it but got this error msg:
??? Error using ==> load
Unable to read file /Users/lingheyang/Desktop/Drobo/Steven/data_loadup/Brain_GEM_hist_mask.mat: Not a directory.

any idea?

Thanks