path - How to change the Jupyter start-up folder

Question

I tried following the instructions given on the Jupyter Notebook documentation.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure it out. Where exactly is this "start in" field?

I've a windows 7 (64 bit) system, with Anaconda3 installed (not in C drive). I want to change Jupyter start folder location.

Answer 1

Use the jupyter notebook config file:

Open cmd (or Anaconda Prompt) and run jupyter notebook --generate-config.

This writes a file to C:Usersusername.jupyterjupyter_notebook_config.py.

Browse to the file location and open it in an Editor

Search for the following line in the file: #c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = ''

Replace by c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = '/the/path/to/home/folder/'

Make sure you use forward slashes in your path and use /home/user/ instead of ~/ for your home directory, backslashes could be used if placed in double quotes even if folder name contains spaces as such : "D:yourUserNameAny FolderMore Folders"

Remove the # at the beginning of the line to allow the line to execute

2021 update:

For recent nbclassic and JupyterLab>=3 use c.ServerApp.root_dir instead of c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir (and jupyter server --generate-config instead of notebook).

For context see migration guide and this question on differences between server and notebook.