How to change working directory in Jupyter Notebook

Question

I couldn t find a place for me to change the working directory in Jupyter Notebook  so I couldn t use the pd read csv method to read in a specific csv document   Is there any way to make it  FYI  I m using Python3 5 1 currently   Thanks

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Jupyter under the WinPython environment has a batch file in the scripts folder called:

make_working_directory_be_not_winpython.bat

You need to edit the following line in it:

echo WINPYWORKDIR = %%HOMEDRIVE%%%%HOMEPATH%%\Documents\WinPython%%WINPYVER%%\Notebooks>>"%winpython_ini%"

replacing the Documents\WinPython%%WINPYVER%%\Notebooks part with your folder address.

Notice that the %%HOMEDRIVE%%%%HOMEPATH%%\ part will identify the root and user folders (i.e. C:\Users\your_name\) which will allow you to point different WinPython installations on separate computers to the same cloud storage folder (e.g. OneDrive), accessing and working with the same files from different machines. I find that very useful.

User · Answer

list all magic command  lsmagic show current directory  pwd

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You may use jupyter magic command as below   cd  C  abc xyz

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it is similar to jason lee as he mentioned earlier   in Jupyter notebook  you can access the current working directory by  pwd     or by import OS from library and running os getcwd    i e  for example  In     import os         os getcwd     out      c  users  admin  Desktop  python                This is my working directory    Changing Working Directory   For changing the Working Directory  much more similar to current W d just you need to change from os getcwd   to os chdir  desired location    In     import os         os chdir  c user chethan Desktop            This is where i want to update my w d                                                     like that choose your desired location  out       c user  chethan  Desktop

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I have did it on windows machine  Detail mentioned below 1   From windows start menu open    Anaconda Prompt  enter image description here 2   Find  jupyter folder file path    In command prompt just type enter image description here  or enter image description here  to find the  jupyter path   After find the  jupyter folder  check there has    jupyter notebook config    file  or not  If it is not there then run below command enter image description here After run the command it will create  jupyter notebook config py    if do not have administrator permission then Some time you could not find  jupyter folder   Still you can open config file from any of the text editor   Open    jupyter notebook config py    file from the the     jypyter    folder   After open the file need to update the directory is use for notebooks and kernel  There are so many line in config file so find       c NotebookApp notebook dir    and update the path  enter image description here After  enter image description here Save the file Now try to create or read some file from the location you set

User · Answer

Open jupyter notebook click upper right corner new and select terminal then type cd   your desired working path and press enter this will change your dir   It worked for me

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It s simple  every time you open Jupyter Notebook and you are in your current work directory  open the Terminal in the near top right corner position where create new Python file in  The terminal in Jupyter will appear in the new tab  Type command cd  lt your new work directory gt  and enter  and then type Jupyter Notebook in that terminal  a new Jupyter Notebook will appear in the new tab with your new work directory

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Running os chdir NEW PATH  will change the working directory   import os os getcwd   Out 2     tmp  In  3    os chdir      In  4     os getcwd   Out 4       In

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First you need to create the config file  using cmd   jupyter notebook --generate-config Then  search for C  Users your username  jupyter folder  Search for that folder   and right click edit the jupyter notebook config py  Then  Ctrl F   c NotebookApp notebook dir       Note that the quotes are single quotes  Select your directory you want to have as home for your jupyter  and copy it with Ctrl C  for example  C  Users username Python Projects  Then on that line  paste it like this   c NotebookApp notebook dir    C   Users  username  Python Projects  Make sure to remove    as it is as comment  Make sure to double slash    on each name of your path  Ctrl S to save the config py file     Go back to your cmd and run jupyter notebook  It should be in your directory of choice  Test it by making a folder and watch your directory from your computer

User · Answer

on Jupyter notebook  try this   pwd                   this shows the current directory    if this is not the directory you like and you would like to change  try this   import os  os chdir   THIS SHOULD BE YOUR DESIRED DIRECTORY     Then try pwd again to see if the directory is what you want    It works for me

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