What are these errors on starting up matlab?

% Brand new to MATLAB (student version) and when I switch it on the following errors appear:

Error using cd
Cannot CD to C:\Users\Eoghan\AppData\Local\Temp (Name is nonexistent or not a directory).

Error in tempdir (line 30)
    curr_dir = cd(tmp_dir);

Error in findLogStream (line 13)

Error in setupConnector>localDisableConsoleLogging (line 42)

Error in setupConnector (line 30)

Error in performConnectorAction>startService (line 105)

Error in performConnectorAction (line 13)

Error in connectorHandler>performAction (line 69)

Error in connectorHandler (line 28)

Error in connector (line 10)
    connectorHandler(action, varargin{:});

Error in connector.internal.autostart.run (line 10)

% the temp folder does exist
% Anyone any idea what I should do?

[Andre Jaya]

Yes, I had same problem, and i get rid of this by running matlab as admin.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You need to create the directory C:\Users\Eoghan\AppData\Local\Temp

[Eoghan Daly]

Hi Walter, thanks for your reply. That directory was always there, I had checked it. I noticed today it is read only under its properties tab and when unchecked it keeps reverting back to being read only again. I have made sure it is not a permissions issue (took a long time). do you know if there is any way I can tell MATLAB to use another temp file instead?

[Vathsal V S]

Hi, even I am facing the same issue with the student version(academic license) - It says directory access failure, but on checking, the directory seems to be present in the specified path its looking for ! Any workaround for this ?

[Walter Roberson]

I suggest experimenting with setting the TEMP environment variable to a different directory.

You can look at the source for tempdir to see how it derives the locations.

type tempdir