How do I select files using uigetfile without file extension in R2013b OS X?

When I use uigetfile in matlab 2013b/8.2 Mac OSX files that don't have an extension are grayed out and not possible to select. How do I fix this? I have tried to use different inputs for filterspec but none seem to solve this problem.

[FILENAME, PATHNAME, FILTERINDEX] = uigetfile('*.*','Select data file',initial_path);

[Jon]

Have you figured this out? I'm having the exact same issue.

[Rjs]

I'm having the same issue but with R2014a and os x 10.9.2

Answer 1

[Joseph Cheng]

I would try uigetfile('','selectdata','path'). However i do not have access to a mac right now.

[Sven]

I have tried that also, but matlab seems to gray out the files regardless of the filterspec. So no solution to this problem yet...

Answer 2

[Adrian]

I had the same issue for files missing an extension on a mac (OSX 10.9.3, MATLAB R2014a). The following worked for me.

[FILENAME, PATHNAME, FILTERINDEX] = uigetfile({'*','All Files'},'Select data file',initial_path);

It does not appear to work if you use '*' alone. You have to associate All Files with '*'.

Good luck!