sbiosaveproject gives error "Unrecognized function or variable 'cleanupDirectories'."

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I am using simbiology to run my code and its been working fine. However, periodically I would have errors with sbiosaveproject.
When I get errors, I can dive into the sbiosaveproject and see that its doing a try and catch on the sbiogate function (this code is taken from line 130-160 of sbiosaveproject:
errorOccurred = false;
try
filesToZip = {matFileName, manifestFileName};
sbiogate('privateadddesktopfilestoproject', projfilename_new, filesToZip);
catch
errorOccurred = true;
end
If I debug and stop it at that function and run it in the command line, i get this error:
K>> sbiogate('privateadddesktopfilestoproject', projfilename_new, filesToZip)
Unrecognized function or variable 'cleanupDirectories'.
Error in privateadddesktopfilestoproject
Error in sbiogate (line 22)
feval(varargin{:});
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If I do a which on cleanupDirectories, I get this:
K>> which cleanupDirectories
'cleanupDirectories' not found.
I have tried to delete all forms of MatLab and redownload. I have read and write access to all the temp folders. I have tried to specifically manually delete and reinstall simbiology. Nothing works to get the sbiosaveproject code to run again.

Accepted Answer

Priya Moorthy
Priya Moorthy on 14 Jan 2026 at 17:09
Edited: Priya Moorthy on 14 Jan 2026 at 18:53
Jen, I am very sorry that you have run into errors calling sbiosaveproject. There are two issues here:
1) The missing “cleanupDirectories” function is being called when trying to clean up a temporary output directory that was left behind from a previous failed call to sbiosaveproject. Restarting MATLAB will reset the temporary output directory.
2) If sbiosaveproject errored in a previous call to save a given project <projName>.sbproj, there may be an intermediate file, <projName>.new.sbproj, in the same directory. Delete this file and try saving again in a fresh MATLAB session.
We will address both of these bugs in future releases of MATLAB.
Priya

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