\\thispc\scripts and c:\scripts not the same?

I tried to set the path for my scripts folder "scripts" on the c: drive. However, my program using the scripts couldn't find the scripts, not until I set the path to the scripts folder through finding the pc on the network list. I mean why will matlab not be able to find the scripts path if it set using the good old c:-path? Why does it need to be wired through the network to the same pc to be able to find the folder?

Is

\\thispc\scripts

and

c:\scripts

not the same?

[Jan]

The question is not clear. Of course you can simply include C:\scripts in your path, if this folder exists. Did you create a shared folder called "\\thispc\scripts"? If so, how did you do this? Why do you assume, that you cannot access C:\scripts?

[Jan]

[MOVED, Mads wrote in the section for answers:]

The question is clear, but the reason it did not work is not clear.

The "scripts" folder was placed there, actually through a Github repository.

I see it on the c: drive where I put it and expect everything is fine.

So I set the matlab search path through the "Set path" GUI. It doesn't complain, and it saves it too.

Then I run my program which is supposed to read scripts from the "scripts" folder.

But the usual complain comes, that it did not find this and that.

By chance I get the idea to set the path through finding the present computer itself just by going through the Network lists, locating it, locating the folder.

It saves.

Now the program runs smoothly.

I agree, of course they should be the same

@Mads: Please post comments in the section for comments, not as an answer. Thanks.

[Mads]

Sorry, my bad

[Jan]

At least to me the question is still not clear.

 The "scripts" folder was placed there, actually through a Github
 repository.

I do not know, what this means. You have a folder called C:\scripts, correct? Is it a real folder or a mapped network drive or link?

 But the usual complain comes, that it did not find this and that.

Please post the code and a copy of the complete error message. There is a problem in any unknown detail, therefore we need to know all details.

This should work reliably:

addpath('C:\scritps', '-end');
savepath

I assume, you had another problem with your code.

[Mads]

Everything is confusing to me as well. Everything is normal, no links, no shared folders. It is present on the drive as a normal folder.

You final solution works! I now have the scripts folder listed just as supposed to be.

Thanks for your time and help

[Jan]

Then I post it as an answer.

Answer 1

[Jan]

It is not clear, what went wrong, but this should work:

addpath('C:\scritps', '-end');
savepath