I am having problems when reading specific files from an external hard drive. I essentially have a folder of text files that I am reading individually (all files have identical formatting etc.). For some reason, on certain files (in this situation ~200/300 files) MATLAB returns an error that the file is not there when I try to read it. What I have tried: * If I use exist(fileName,'file') it does not show up * When I use the dir() command to generate the list of files it is there * If I copy the entire directory to my computer's hard drive the script executes without trouble I routinely read files in this manner from the hard drive and the problem has never occurred before. I have not been able to re-create this problem in any other similarly formatted script. Any thoughts?

Problems reading select files from external hard drive.

Daniel McGrail

2016 1 27

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I am having problems when reading specific files from an external hard drive. I essentially have a folder of text files that I am reading individually (all files have identical formatting etc.). For some reason, on certain files (in this situation ~200/300 files) MATLAB returns an error that the file is not there when I try to read it. What I have tried:

If I use exist(fileName,'file') it does not show up
When I use the dir() command to generate the list of files it is there
If I copy the entire directory to my computer's hard drive the script executes without trouble

I routinely read files in this manner from the hard drive and the problem has never occurred before. I have not been able to re-create this problem in any other similarly formatted script. Any thoughts?

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Walter Roberson 2016-1-28

Permissions problem?? Does it affect entire subdirectories? Do the files have unusual ACL or security permissions?

Daniel McGrail 2016-1-30

Think I got it fixed (at least for now). Tried reading them from my external on another computer, and it was fine. Reinstalled all the drivers on my computer and the problem appears to have gone away. Not quite sure what made it not recognize those particular files, but happy it is working now.

Thanks for your time.

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