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From: Rune Allnor <allnor@tele.ntnu.no>
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Subject: Re: My files vanished
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On 15 Okt, 09:41, "Florent Heidet" <flo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Matlab 7 r14 on my new computer (Vista 64b) and it worked without a scratch.
>
> But when I tried to go in my "work" directory to copy my files, I did not find them...!!
> When within Matlab I do a "dir" or a "ls" Matlab sees the files in the directory.
> I can open the files from Matlab, but I cannot access to them from the explorer!! (of course, I already unchecked the "Display hidden files" in my explorer)
>
> Does anybody what is this problem due to (probably Vista)? And a way to solve it?

This may have been altered by now, but a few years ago the
work directory was located in a release-specific location.
On my computer:

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2006a\work

So there is a chance that your files are located in a
different location than where you think they are.

Worse, unless you are very careful, there is a chance that
your files may be erased if you uninstal the present version
of matlab before you install the new one...

What I do to minimize the hazzle of upgrades is to only
have a startup.m file in the default directory and store
my matlab files on a different path:

C:\Documents and Settings\Eier\My Documents\matlab

The startup.m file then contains the statement

cd('C:\Documents and Settings\Eier\My Documents\matlab ')

which basically is transparent from release to release.

With the present twice-per-year version release frequency
one would expect TMW to streamline such issues so that
users experience as little hazzle as possible upon updates.

A tool to scan for existing GUI preferences aand settings,
as well as a transparent configurable location where to
store local files would come in very handy. But again,
my knowledge on the matter is a few years old, so these
issues might already have been addressed by now.

Rune