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Does anyone know how to delete those past working directories in Octave GUI? They are very annoying and useless.enter image description here

Petros Kires
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I see from your image that you are on windows.

I don't know the equivalent directory on windows, but on linux, this information seems to be stored under ~/.config/octave/octave-gui.ini, in a section called current_directory_list which you can edit and clear of all unwanted entries.

See if you can find the equivalent folder where this octave-gui.ini file is stored on windows; it may be in an AppData/Local directory, or in the octave installation folder itself...

PS: In the same directory I also had a qt_settings file which seems to mirror some of this information, but I think this may have been from an older octave installation.

Tasos Papastylianou
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    Yes, I navigated with the command line to ~/.config/octave and then I opened the file "qt-settings" with NANO , then i edited the line "current_directory_list" , where indeed it holds those past directories. I removed unwanted directories , saved with control+O, but they are still there, but thank you anyway! – Petros Kires Mar 30 '21 at 15:46
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In addition to deleting the file path from octave-gui.ini, try removing the path from .octaverc file as well. This will remove the warning you see at launch if the path no longer exists.

Justin Baker
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