Accessing files from my Matlab Drive in a script

Hello everybody,

I´m looking for a solution to access .m-files, that I saved in my Matlab Drive linked to my account. I want to load these files into my workspace on my desktop computer. Is there a command, that addresses files in my Matlab Drive?

I appreciate your support. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Gareth]

Hi Christian,

While there is not currently a command to access your MATLAB Drive content programatically, if you have installed MATLAB Drive Connector then you can use the MATLAB Drive button to cd into your MATLAB Drive folder inside of MATLAB. You can then use those files as you would any other local files and load them into your workspace etc.

I hope that helps,

Best wishes,

Gareth

[Christian Schaaf]

Hi Gareth,

thanks for your reply. That´s what I already did. Do you know if there will be a command for this operation in the future?

[Gareth]

Hi Christian,

We do listen to customer feedback and this is something that has been requested previously - if/when I can provide an update on this functionality I will reply to this Answer to let you know.

Thanks and best wishes,

Gareth.

[Christian Schaaf]

alright, thank you for the excellent support!

Answer 2

[Gareth]

Hi Christian, MATLAB R2021a has now been released and we've added a new matlabdrive function which when combined with fullfile can be used to construct a path to files in your MATLAB Drive that will work in both MATLAB Online and on the desktop.

For example, a script could now call something like the following, and it should work equally well so long as MATLAB Drive is available on that computer:

A = imread(fullfile(matlabdrive, 'Images', 'BinaryImages', 'binary1.bmp'));

Hopefully this helps towards the usecase that you were inquiring about!

Best wishes,

Gareth