How to change the Root/Default directory for files to save (Jupyter ver 7.0.6)

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I understand to change the Root or Default directory the following needs to be done:

  • Create Config file
  • Change the following in the config file:
    Add the new directory to:
    ## The directory to use for notebooks and kernels.
    #c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = ‘’
    XXX
    I could not find this
    What I found in the config file was:
  • Line 944:
    …c.ServerApp.preferred_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\A Jupyter’ {You can see I enterd the directory and removed the # in front}
  • Line 965:
    …c.ServerApp.root_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\A Jupyter’
  • Line 915:
    …c.ServerApp.notebook_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\A Jupyter’

Still, it has not changed the default location for files uploading and saving

Please advise how to change the default file open and save location on Jupyter 7.0.6

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Yes, in version 7.x it is c.ServerApp, not c.NotebookApp. preferred_dir is the location where the file browser will start, root_dir is the directory up to which ouser can traverse.

  • Create Config file

How did you create it and where? Is it under one of the paths listed in jupyter --paths config section?

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Hi Krassowski.
I found the following on internet and did this to create the config file:

  1. Open the terminal or command prompt on your computer.
  2. Type jupyter notebook --generate-config and press Enter. This will generate a configuration file for Jupyter Notebook.

(I had it generated 2 days ago, deleted it, and regenrated it today)

Its location is at:
C:\Users\user.jupyter

And main Root directory it picks up is
C:\Users\user

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Yes it seems to pick up the path of the config file
FROM CMD
C:\Users\user>jupyter --paths
config:
C:\Users\user.jupyter
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Python\etc\jupyter
K:\Anaconda\etc\jupyter
C:\ProgramData\jupyter
Some of these folders do not exist, line 2 and 4
Line 3 K:.… does not contain a config file, however it has config folders with other stuff in it

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I understand that you are editing jupyter_server_config.py file. Do you see any juypter_server_config.json file in these locations which could be overriding your config? Do you see your changes when you run jupyter server --show-config and jupyter notebook --show-config? These commands should show a list of “Loaded config files”.

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Hi, thanks for trying to assist:

  1. juypter_server_config.json did not find this file

In the mean time I googled it further and found the idea to enter the line in the config file that was not there. I have now 3 lines. Also re-installed Jupyter
The 3 lines:
c.ServerApp.root_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’
c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’
c.ServerApp.preferred_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’

2 run jupyter server --show-config :
I see the following line in there:

File “C:\Users\user.jupyter\jupyter_notebook_config.py”, line 6
c.ServerApp.root_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’
IndentationError: unexpected indent

So it picks my line up, but there is some error. I also tried with :

  File "C:\Users\user\.jupyter\jupyter_notebook_config.py", line 6
    c.ServerApp.root_dir = 'D:\\My Folder\\Aandele\\AJupyter\\1 BuySell'
IndentationError: unexpected indent

3 run jupyter notebook --show-config:
I see ssame as above error message:

File “C:\Users\user.jupyter\jupyter_notebook_config.py”, line 6
c.ServerApp.root_dir = ‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’
IndentationError: unexpected indent

XXXXXX

I found space infront of the c.xxxxxx, removed them, now I am getting the following error:
[W 2024-01-20 20:28:13.138 ServerApp] notebook | error linking extension: No such directory: ‘‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\x01 BuySell’’

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No such directory: ‘‘D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\x01 BuySell’’

It means that it treats \1 as special character - you need to add escapes, so instead of:

c.ServerApp.root_dir = 'D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell'

it would be:

c.ServerApp.root_dir = 'D:\\My Folder\\Aandele\\AJupyter\\1 BuySell'
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Hi Krassowski
Thank you for your Help!!

I have resolved it now, thanks to your assistance Krassowski

1 - remove spaces before the c
2 - I used the following 3, not sure if all 3 are required, with an “r”

c.ServerApp.root_dir = r’D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’
c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = r’D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’
c.ServerApp.preferred_dir = r’D:\My Folder\Aandele\AJupyter\1 BuySell’

Note: Above the screen shows \ (only 1) however it is \ + \ 2 as per Krassowski, not sure why it is showing only 1 line

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