Importing data from outside matlab directory?

My students use matlab on chromebooks, how can the import a .txt file from their downloads folder to their matlab directory?

[Rafa]

To import a .txt file (or any file/folder) in your MATLAB Online session that is currently in your downloads folder on your local computer, you would need to upload it first to MATLAB Drive or OneDrive. MATLAB Online does not have direct access to your local file system, including your downloads folder, so the file must be in MATLAB Drive or OneDrive to be accessible from MATLAB Online.

These are useful links:

MATLAB Online - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)

MATLAB Drive - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)

Personal Cloud Storage – Microsoft OneDrive

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Probably the easiest way is to use the fullfile function to generate the complete path to the file. To access other files in the same directory, only the filename then needs to be provided.

To transfer it to a directory on the MATLAB path, use the copyfile function.