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title: Running Jupyter notebooks in a different folder — Advancing Analytics
description: This is a short blog for anyone who wants to know how to change the default location of Jupyter.
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# [Running Jupyter notebooks in a different folder — Advancing Analytics](https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog/jupyter-notebook-default-location)

 Written by [Terry McCann](https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog/author/terry-mccann) | 06/05/19 23:00

When doing demos I am frequently asked how do you point you session of Jupyter Notebooks to a different location than the default? It is really simple to do, once you know how.

## Default location

On Windows the default location is in the user you’re logged in as.

```
%userprofile%
```

Running the command above in an explorer window, will take you there.

## Using a different location

If you do not want to run Jupyter here, then all you need to do is open a command prompt (cmd/anaconda) and change the directory to where you want to create the notebooks. Once in the location enter

```
jupyter notebook
```

A new session will start and you will now see all the notebooks in that location.

A simple little way to run notebooks in a location of your choice.

 

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