Question of automatically creating MATLAB folder

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!

[ENRICO SILVESTRI]

I have the same problem lmao.

Answer 1

[Ken Atwell]

Try:

 >> userpath /my/custom/location

Then restart MATLAB.

[Pengyu]

Thank you!

[Markus Pauly]

The only answer, that worked for me. Thanks a lot!

[Neil Spencer]

Many thanks for this - still works for me in version R2021b in January 2022.

[MEHMET BAYIK]

Thanks a lot. Just for reference, it still works on r2022a version on M1 processor via Rosetta 2.

[Zaidan]

This still works like a charm on the R2024a Version on M3 Processor. Thank you so much!

Answer 2

[Stefan Baginski]

Many thanks. This has helped me as well. Just for reference this is the command I have used to set it up:

userpath("/Users/Stefan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/MATLAB")

Afterwards the MATLAB folder in Documents is no ~/Documents/ is no longer created.

Best

Stefan