Is there a way to not replicate the preferences of MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) in my new installation of MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)?

I have installed MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a) on my machine, where MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) was previously installed. Unfortunately, I see that the preferences already chosen for R14SP3 are exactly replicated for R2006a. I would like to maintain the newest MATLAB installation with the default value of preferences, even if I have customized appearance, colors and fonts of the existing installation.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The ability to install MATLAB with default values of preferences when MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) is already installed is not available in MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a).

When you install R2006a, MATLAB creates a new preference folder and migrates the files in the R14SP3 preferences directory to the R2006a preferences directly.

To work around this issue, delete the contents of the preferences folder used by MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a). Note that the folder also contains files like history.m, which you do not have to delete. The preferences folder for R2006a is determined by running

 prefdir

in the MATLAB Command Window.

When you next start MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a), new preferences, the R2006a defaults, will be generated and stored.