Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab < 3.0
For old Jupyter Notebook interface installed with notebook
package and run as jupyter notebook
(see the next section for the identical interface installed with nbclassic
and run with jupyter nbclassic
, and for JupyterLab):
- Open
cmd
(or Anaconda Prompt) and runjupyter notebook --generate-config
. - This writes a file to
C:\Users\username\.jupyter\jupyter_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:\yourUserName\Any Folder\More Folders\"
- Remove the
#
at the beginning of the line to allow the line to execute
JupyterLab >= 3, Jupyter Notebook Classic, and RetroLab
For recent nbclassic
and JupyterLab >= 3 use c.ServerApp.root_dir
instead of c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir
(and jupyter server --generate-config
instead of jupyter notebook --generate-config
).
For context see migration guide and this question on differences between server
and notebook
.