Change IPython/Jupyter notebook working directory

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John picture John · Mar 28, 2013 · Viewed 451.5k times · Source

When I open a Jupyter notebook (formerly IPython) it defaults to C:\Users\USERNAME.

How can I change this so to another location?

Answer

Matt picture Matt · Mar 28, 2013

jupyter notebook --help-all could be of help:

--notebook-dir=<Unicode> (NotebookManager.notebook_dir)
    Default: u'/Users/me/ipynbs'
    The directory to use for notebooks.

For example:

jupyter notebook --notebook-dir=/Users/yourname/folder1/folder2/

You can of course set it in your profiles if needed, you might need to escape backslash in Windows.

Note that this will override whatever path you might have set in a jupyter_notebook_config.py file. (Where you can set a variable c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir that will be your default startup location.)

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