All the functions starting with ui (uigetfile, uigetdir, etc...) fail to work (and return 0). They do not even pop up a Window to select files.
This happened on OSX Monterey 12.3 with MATLAB 2019b, 2020b, 2021b, 2022b.
1 Answers
I realized that when the MATLAB process hangs after a ui command, a new process is created for analytics and improvement. And this process apparently crashed. I tried to kill it but it did not help. I tried to disable in the preferences > Security > Privacy tab but was not able to (the GUI was not populating).
Eventually I rebooted and was able to disable Analytics and Improvements. After that MATLAB behaved fine.
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