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How to navigate to a different directory in Jupyter Notebook?


I have recently installed Anaconda 5 and with it Jupyter Notebook. I am excited with its rich functionality but I can not find a way to navigate to directories which are not children. More specifically I have tried to double-click the folder icon but that resulted in the same View.

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Your advice will be appreciated.


Solution

  • Default root of the Jupyter explorer is the current location (directory) where you start the Jupyter server. With the explorer, you can only navigate to all levels of the children directories, but not the parent's of that location. There is an option to set the root directory --notebook-dir when you start Jupyter. Here is an example command that starts Jupyter server and sets the root at D:/my_works/jupyter_ipynbs

    jupyter notebook --notebook-dir D:/my_works/jupyter_ipynbs
    

    Similarly, for jupyter lab:

    jupyter lab --notebook-dir D:/my_works/jupyter_ipynbs
    

    Once Jupyter is open on the web browser, its home or root directory will be what you specified as the value of --notebook-dir, in this case D:/my_works/jupyter_ipynbs. From that point, you can navigate to all its sub-directories.