"Warning: Name is nonexistent or not a directory:" when not connected to network drive

Hi.

I have a set of folders in my Matlab path that are on a network drive. I do not want to sync the drive to my PC, because it would use up too much space. In order to connect to the network drive, I have to manually open it in Windows when I am connected to the network it is in, and use a VPN connection to open it when I am in a different network.

Every time I start up Matlab and I am not connected to the drive, I get a warning message (see title) for every folder on the drive, which is a little annoying.

Is there a way to disable the warning message for the folders on the drive?

Answer 1

[Marc Jakobi]

Okay, nevermind, I found a solution.

1. Give yourself editing rights to the file matlabrc.m 2. Between the lines 32 and 33 that contain the following code:

        if exist('pathdef','file') && ...
                       ~exist('RESTOREDEFAULTPATH_EXECUTED','var')
            matlabpath(pathdef);
        end

add the line

              warning('off','MATLAB:dispatcher:pathWarning')

So it looks like this:

        if exist('pathdef','file') && ...
                       ~exist('RESTOREDEFAULTPATH_EXECUTED','var')
            warning('off','MATLAB:dispatcher:pathWarning')
            matlabpath(pathdef);
        end

Not the cleanest solution, since it disables all warnings about missing paths, but sufficient for my problem, since I never really need the warning.