persistent error message at command window prompt...

I have just started a contract at Wells Fargo in Charlotte. I have been given access to the MATLAB on the server here, but I keep getting a persistent error message at the command window screen prompt:

"java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\Program Files\MATLAB\preffile\MATLAB.prf (Access is denied)."

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

That is the MATLAB preference file. You don't seem to have access to that file. Do you have the access to that file? Can you open a Windows Explorer and navigate to that file?

Answer 2

[Yair Altman]

Try to found out why Matlab wants to access this filepath (which is invalid) in the first place - the MATLAB.prf file is normally placed in prefdir, which is a user-accessible folder such as C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\MathWorks\MATLAB\R2011b

Perhaps your prefdir folder points to this invalid folder? (run prefdir in Matlab's command prompt to find out). If so, it might be due to an invalid environment variable (e.g., 'APPDATA').