How to change the windows drive for JupyterLab in Anaconda Navigator?

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Under Windows, JupyterLab does not allow navigation in the UI to any drive other than the drive that JupyterLab was started in. By default this is the C: drive.

How can you access notebooks on another drive?

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Anaconda does not allow switching between drives but you can start Jupyter Lab or a Jupyter notebook on another drive, for example the D: drive.

  • First shutdown any running JupyterLab, then

  • Open a terminal window from within Anaconda Navigator. To do this, select environments in the Navigator window and then click the green "play" arrow next to base(root) -- or which ever environment you are using.

  • then in the terminal window type

jupyter notebook --generate-config

  • this will generate a file in your user directory under .jupyter\jupyter_notebook_config.py

  • edit the file.

  • Set the variable c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir to whatever directory you want to start in, for example

c.NotebookApp.notebook_dir = "D:\mydir"

  • NOTE do not put a trailing backslash. Also if the directory pathname contains spaces ensure you are using double quotes.

  • save the file and test that all is working. In the command line type

jupyter lab

  • this should start JupyterLab correctly, check for any errors in the terminal window. JupyterLab should start in the directory you set in the file.

  • If all is well, shutdown JupyterLab and run it from the Anaconda Navigator window as usual. All should work now.

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As mentioned by GreyMS in this github issue, you can use an mklink:

mklink /D D_Drive D:\sources
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