Matlab R2008a doesn't open files outside its path any more ?

Hi,

Everything was OK for months , but now I can't open or run any .m file with matlab except it exists in the same folder of matlab . This line is occurred in the command line of matlab .

assert/signal failures have occurred; MATLAB will abort in 10 seconds.

and theb this error message appears:

any help!

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

Have you attempted a reinstall?

[aurora]

No, I don't have the setup file right now.

[Image Analyst]

Did you see where it says "Please contact the application's support team for more information." That would be the Mathworks. You can do that tomorrow morning, though since you're still running R2008a I would guess you probably aren't on a maintenance contract and so you don't have any support. If reinstalling doesn't fix it, then you may get to upgrade to R2012b. Well, you can't stay stuck in the past forever.

Answer 1

[Sachin Ganjare]

Try to run matlab in admin mode, by right clicking matlab icon & selcting 'Run as administrator' button.

Hope it helps!!!

[Sachin Ganjare]

Another Solution:

1) FIRST RIGHT CLICK ON MATLAB ICON ON DESKTOP

2)GO TO PROPERTIES

3)THEN CLICK ON COMPATIBILITY OPTION

4)IN COMPATIBILITY MODE CLICK ON RUN THIS PROGRAM IN COMPATIBILITY MODE FOR

5)THEN SELECT YOUR WINDOWS VERSION (Eg.WINDOWS VISTA) FROM LIST OF OPTIONS.

6)CLICK APPLY N THEN OK.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Try downloading and installing the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86), available here.

Answer 3

[aurora]

Thank you all , I tried SACHIN solution but it doesn't work . I want to remind that my version worked well for months, but now it only runs the .m files that exists in the matlab path and when I try to open an outer file from matlab this message occurs :

Answer 4

[Sean de Wolski]

Hi Aurora,

Can you restore your default path:

restoredefaultpath
rehash toolboxcache
cd(matlabroot)

Basically I want to remove everything from the path but the default folders. This will isolate if anything added to your path has caused whatever this behavior you are seeing is.

Alternatively, contact us!