How to change the Jupyter start-up folder

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kchak picture kchak · Feb 7, 2016 · Viewed 561.1k times · Source

I tried following the instructions given on the Jupyter Notebook documentation.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure it out. Where exactly is this "start in" field?

I've a windows 7 (64 bit) system, with Anaconda3 installed (not in C drive). I want to change Jupyter start folder location.

Answer

marneylc picture marneylc · Nov 9, 2016

Use the jupyter notebook config file:

Open cmd (or Anaconda Prompt) and run jupyter notebook --generate-config.

This writes a file to C:\Users\username\.jupyter\jupyter_notebook_config.py.

Browse to the file location and open it in an Editor

Search for the following line in the file: #c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = ''

Replace by c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = '/the/path/to/home/folder/'

Make sure you use forward slashes in your path and use /home/user/ instead of ~/ for your home directory, backslashes could be used if placed in double quotes even if folder name contains spaces as such : "D:\yourUserName\Any Folder\More Folders\"

Remove the # at the beginning of the line to allow the line to execute

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