Change IPython Jupyter notebook working directory

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When I open a Jupyter notebook  formerly IPython  it defaults to C  Users USERNAME   How can I change this so to another location

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I have both 32 and 64 bit python and ipython using WinPython, I wanted both 32 and 64 bit versions to point to the same working directory for ipython notebook.

I followed the above suggestions here I was still unable to get my setup working.

Here's what I did - in case anyone needs it:

It looks like Ipython notebook was using the configuration from C:\pythonPath\winpythonPath\settings\.ipython\profile_default

Even though ipython locate returns C:\users\Username\.ipython

As a result, modifying the ipython_notebook_config.py file did nothing to change my working directory.

Additionally ipython profile_create was not creating the needed python files in C:\pythonPath\winpythonPath\settings\.ipython\profile_default

I'm sure there's a better way, but to resolve this quickly, I copied the edited python files from C:\users\Username\.ipython\profile_default to C:\pythonPath\winpythonPath\settings\.ipython\profile_default

Now (finally) ipython notebook 64 bit runs and provides me the correct working directory

Note on Windows I'm having no issue with the following syntax:

c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = u'C:/Users/Path_to_working_directory'

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I ll add to the long list of answers here  If you are on Windows  using Anaconda3  I accomplished this by going to the file  Scripts ipython-script py  and just added the lines  import os os chdir  lt path to desired dir gt     before the line  sys exit IPython start ipython

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Simply follow the guide on the official site  also copied below  For the first step  instead of copying the launcher  you can just go to start menu and right click to open the location         Copy the Jupyter Notebook launcher from the menu to the desktop    Right click on the new launcher and change the    Start in    field by pasting the full path of the folder which will contain all the notebooks    Double-click on the Jupyter Notebook desktop launcher  icon shows  IPy   to start the Jupyter Notebook App  which will open in a new browser window  or tab   Note also that a secondary terminal window  used only for error logging and for shut down  will be also opened  If only the terminal starts  try opening this address with your browser  http   localhost 8888

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pwd   look at the current work dir  cd    change to the dir you want

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jupyter notebook --help-all could be of help   --notebook-dir  lt Unicode gt   NotebookManager notebook dir      Default  u  Users me ipynbs      The directory to use for notebooks    For example   jupyter notebook --notebook-dir  Users yourname folder1 folder2    You can of course set it in your profiles if needed  you might need to escape backslash in Windows   Note that this will override whatever path you might have set in a jupyter notebook config py file    Where you can set a variable c NotebookApp notebook dir that will be your default startup location

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I have a very effective method to save the notebooks in a desired location in windows    One-off activity  Make sure the path of jupyter-notebook exe is saved under environment variable   Open your desired directory either from windows explorer or by cd from command prompt From the windows explorer on your desired folder  select the address bar in a way that the path label is fully selected  and type jupyter-notebook exe  voila   the notebook opens from the desired folder and any new notebook will be saved in this location

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For linux and Windows  Just modify 1 line  and you can change it   1  Open file      cwp py   in      C  Users   your computer name  Anaconda2      2  find the line       os chdir documents folder    at the end of the file   Change it to      os chdir  your expected working folder     for example  os chdir  D  Jupyter folder    3  save and close    It worked     Update   When it comes to MacOS  I couldn t find the cwp py  Here is what I found   Open terminal on your Macbook  run  jupyter notebook --generate-config    It will create a config file at  Users  your username   jupyter jupyter notebook config py  Open the config file  then change this line  c NotebookApp notebook dir      to  c NotebookApp notebook dir    your path   and remember un-comment this line too   For example  I change my path to   Users catbuilts JupyterProjects

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According to official Jupyter Notebook Documentation Change       USERPROFILE    to your folder path  Documentation Link

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As MrFancypants mentioned in the comments  if you are using Jupyter  which you should  since it currently supersedes the older IPython Notebook project   things are a little different  For one  there are no profiles any more   After installing Jupyter  first check your    jupyter folder to see its content  If no config files were migrated from the default IPython profile  as they weren t in my case   create a new one for Jupyter Notebook   jupyter notebook --generate-config   This generates    jupyter jupyter notebook config py file with some helpfully commented possible options  To set the default directory add   c NotebookApp notebook dir   u  absolute path to notebook directory    As I switch between Linux and OS X  I wanted to use a path relative to my home folder  as they differ      Users username and  home username   so I set something like   import os c NotebookApp notebook dir   os path expanduser    Dropbox dev notebook     Now  whenever I run jupyter notebook  it opens my desired notebook folder  I also version the whole    jupyter folder in my dotfiles repository that I deploy to every new work machine     As an aside  you can still use the --notebook-dir command line option  so maybe a simple alias would suit your needs better   jupyter notebook --notebook-dir  absolute path to notebook directory

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For Windows 10   Look for the jupyter notebook config py in  C  Users your user name  jupyter or look it up with cortana  If you don t have it  then go to the cmd line and type   jupyter notebook --generate-config Open the jupyter notebook config py and do a ctrl-f search for   c NotebookApp notebook dir Uncomment it by removing the    Change it to    c NotebookApp notebook dir    C  your new path   Note  You can put a u in front of the first    change      to     or change the    to    I don t think it matters   Go to your Jupyter Notebook link and right click  it  Select properties  Go to the Shortcut menu and click Target  Look for  USERPROFILE   Delete it  Save  Restart Jupyter

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just change to the preferred directory in CMD  so if you are in   C  Users USERNAME gt    just change the path like this  C  Users USERNAME gt cd D  MyProjectFolder   the CMD cursor then will move to this folder  D  MyProjectFolder gt    next you can call jupyter  D  MyProjectFolder gt jupyter notebook

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Try the nbopen module  When you install and integrate it with the windows explorer  you will be able to open any notebook by double clicking on it

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import sys sys path append  C

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You can also use AutoHotKey with a simple script to open a Jupyter Notebook server in a default directory  CTRL I  or a path highlighted in explorer  or elsewhere with CTRL SHIFT I     SingleInstance Force  NoTrayIcon  SetTitleMatchMode RegEx    Press CTRL ALT I in a Windows Explorer window to launch a IPython notebook server in the current folder     i     Get the current path  Send  l   Backup the current clipboard  ClipSaved    ClipboardAll   Copy and save the current path  Send  c ClipWait x    Clipboard    Restore the clipboard  Clipboard    ClipSaved ClipSaved     Free the memory in case the clipboard was very large    Now  run the IPython notebook server  RunWait  ipython notebook --notebook-dir   x      min return   i     Now  run the IPython notebook server  RunWait  jupyter notebook --notebook-dir  C  Path To Workspace     min return    Press CTRL ALT P to kill all Python processes    p   Run  taskkill  f  im python exe    min return

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If you are using ipython in linux  then follow the steps    cd  directory name  You can try all the commands which work in you linux terminal   vi file name py  Just specify the exclamation    symbol before your linux commands

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OS Windows 10 Python Anaconda 2018 ver  CHANGE WORKING DIRECTORY OF JUPYTER NOTEBOOK BY CONFIGURATION FILE    Open cmd prompt  or Anaconda Prompt   then type  jupyter notebook --generate-config  and press enter This auto create a file  jupyter notebook config  in the  C  Users username jupyter   folder Look for the created file  jupyter notebook config and edit it  Find for   c NotebookApp notebook dir      Put you re desired path inside double quote  it becomes ---   c NotebookApp notebook dir    D  my folder jupiter    Note the forward slash     is used  and the comment     was remove     Hence     c NotebookApp notebook dir         Edit to becomes   c NotebookApp notebook dir    D  your desired path     Let s modify the path of the Jupyter Notebook shortcut icon 6 0 On start menu  right-click on the shortcut  open folder location  6 1 Once inside the folder  recommended to create a copy of Jupyter shortcut   6 2 right click on the new shortcut icon  to open properties     Finally   6 3 on Target text box  remove  USERPROFILE  at the end of path  The very long path should end with jupyter-notebook-script py   searcch my vid Jupyter Notebook - Change working folder path from default to desired path

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Upper Solution may not work for you if you have installed latest version of Python in Windows  I have installed Python 3 6 0    Anaconda 4 3 0  64-bit  and I wanted to change the working directory of iPython Notebook called Jupyter and this is how it worked for me   Step-1    Open your CMD and type following command   Step1   CMD  Step-2   It has now generated a file in your  jupyter folder  For me  it s C  Users Admin jupyter   There you will find a file called jupyter notebook config py  Right click and edit it  Add the following line and set path of your working directory  Set your own working directory in place of  I  STUDY Y2-Trimester-1 Modern Data Science   We are done  Now you can try restarting your Jupyter Notebook  Hope this is useful to you  Thanks

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Besides  Matt s approach  one way to change the default directory to use for notebooks permanently is to change the config files  Firstly in the cmdline  type     gt  ipython profile create   to initialize a profile with the default configuration file  Secondly  in file ipython notebook config py  uncomment and edit this line     c NotebookManager notebook dir    D   Documents  Desktop    changing D   Documents  Desktop to whatever path you like    This works for me     UPDATE  There is no c NotebookManager notebook dir anymore  Now  the line to uncomment and config is this one  c NotebookApp notebook dir    Z   username example folder that you whant

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On MiniConda2 Anaconda2 under Windows to change Jupyter or iPython working directory  you can modify this file   C  Program Files Miniconda2 cwp py   and add your project folder location  development folder   C  Users USERNAME Development  Which is My Username   Development in my case   also change  os chdir documents folder  to os chdir development folder   try      documents folder   get folder path FOLDERID Documents      development folder   C  Users USERNAME Development  except PathNotFoundException      documents folder   get folder path FOLDERID PublicDocuments  os chdir development folder  subprocess call args  env env    Execute by using your regular Jupiter Notebook shortcuts

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Before runing ipython    Change directory to your preferred directory Run ipython   After runing ipython    Use   cd  Enter your prefered path here  Use  pwd to check your current directory

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This question keeps coming up when I search for ipython change pwd even though I am not interested in a notebook  but a terminal or qtconsole   Not finding a relevant config entry I tried     lines of code to run at IPython startup  c InteractiveShellApp exec lines      cd  home paul mypy     This is the base level shell class  there are Terminal and Console  and probably notebook  entries that could further customize the action   From the docs it looks like import statements are most common in the entry  but it appears that many magic commands work as well

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A neat trick for those using IPython in windows is that you can make an ipython icon in each of your project directories designed to open with the notebook pointing at that chosen project  This helps keep things separate   For example if you have a new project in C  fake example directory  Copy an ipython notebook icon to the directory or create a new link to the windows  cmd  shell  Then right click on the icon and  Edit Properties   Set the shortcut properties to   Target  C  Windows System32 cmd exe  k  cd C  fake example directory  amp  C   amp  ipython notebook --pylab inline   Start in  C  fake example directory     Note the added slash at the end of  start in    This runs windows command line  changes to your working directory  and runs the ipython notebook pointed at that directory   Drop one of these in each project folder and you ll have ipython notebook groups kept nice and separate while still just a doubleclick away   UPDATE  IPython has removed support for the command line inlining of pylab so the fix for that with this trick is to just eliminate  --pylab inline  if you have a newer IPython version  or just don t want pylab obviously    UPDATE FOR JUPYTER NOTEBOOK   version 4 1 1  On my test machines and as reported in comments below  the newest jupyter build appears to check the start directory and launch with that as the working directory  This means that the working directory override is not needed   Thus your shortcut can be as simple as   Target  if jupyter notebook in path       jupyter notebook  Target  if jupyter notebook NOT in path       C  Users  lt Your Username Here gt  Anaconda Scripts jupyter exe notebook   If jupyter notebook is not in your PATH you just need to add the full directory reference in front of the command  If that doesn t work please try working from the earlier version  Very conveniently  now  Start in   can be empty in my tests with 4 1 1 and later  Perhaps they read this entry on SO and liked it  so long upvotes  nobody needs this anymore

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Locate your ipython binary  If you have used anaconda to install ipython-notebook on a mac  chances are it will be in the  Users  name  anaconda bin  directory  in that directory  instead of launching your notebook as    ipython notebook   add a --notebook-dir  lt unicode gt  option      ipython notebook --notebook-dir u    rel path to your python-notebooks    I use a bashscript in my ipython bin directory to launch my notebooks   DIR   dirname  0   DIR ipython notebook --notebook-dir u    rel path to your python-notebooks    Note - the path to the notebook dir is relative to the ipython bin directory

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For Mac OS X with blanks in target directory  follow up to  pheon   Add extra pair of double quotes around        in line 2 thus  See  https   stackoverflow com a 1308838  Sean Bright      bin bash cd    dirname   0     amp  amp  pwd ipython notebook

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To do the same trick described below for Windows in OS X  create this shell script     bin bash cd   dirname   0    amp  amp  pwd ipython notebook   Call it ipython-notebook command and make it executable   Put it in the directory you want to work in  then double-click it

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If you are using ipython in windows  then follow the steps    navigate to ipython notebook in programs and right click on it and go to properties   In shortcut Tab   change the  Start in  directory to your desired directory    Restart the kernal

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In iPython Notebook on Windows  this worked for me   cd d  folder

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When launched from the command line  the IPython Notebook will use your current working directory  I took advantage of this and created context menu entries to open it directly from Windows Explorer  No need for shortcuts or batch scripts    I was inspired by the registry-based  Git GUI Here Git Bash Here  entries created by Git for Windows  This page  archived version linked  was helpful in locating the correct keys    This first pair is for the context menu presented with nothing selected  e g  the directory background   The notebook will open with the current directory as it s working directory   Key  HKCR Directory Background shell ipythonnb Value   amp IPython Notebook Here  Key  HKCR Directory Background shell ipythonnb command Value    lt full path to IPython notebook gt     v    This pair is for the context menu presented when clicking on a folder  The notebook will open with the selected folder as it s working directory   Key  HKCR Directory shell ipythonnb Value   amp IPython Notebook Here  Key  HKCR Directory shell ipythonnb command Value    lt full path to IPython notebook gt     1    Pay attention to  v vs  1 arguments or it won t work  Don t forget the quotes either  On my platform the full path to IPython Notebook is C  WinPython-32bit-2 7 6 4 IPython Notebook exe but this value will obviously dependent on your installation   Edit  AFAICT  the full path is required even if the executable is on the system path

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Usually   ipython notebook will launch the notebooks and kernels at he current working directory of the terminal    But if you want to specify the launch directory  you can use --notebook-dir option as follows     ipython notebook --notebook-dir  path to specific directory

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In command line before typing  jupyter notebook  navigate to the desired folder   In my case my all python files are in  D  Python    Then type the command  jupyter notebook  and there you have it  You have changed your working directory

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A simpler modification to the Windows Trick above -  without the need to hard-code the directory   A  Create a batch file with the following contents     Note  A batch file is a simple text file containing commands that can     be run in the cmd window   It must have a   bat  extension  therefore         you ll need to disable the folder setting which hides extensions of known types   rem -- start ipython notebook here bat --- dir ipython notebook  pause   B  Copy and paste the batch file to any folder you want to start a notebook server in    Make sure it s a folder that you have permission to edit   C    is not a good choice    C  Double-click on the batch file in Windows Explorer   The notebook server should start as it normally does

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