Matlab R2018b doesn't open anymore

Hi I have used my R2018b everyday here in ABB.

Yesterday I installed a program WD Drive Utilities for an external disc using USB.

Today when I try to open the Matlab R2018b version, it doesn't open any more?

[Walter Roberson]

Is it possible that your MATLAB was being accessed by a network drive?

If you check your list of disks, is the disk that had MATLAB stored on it still accessible?

Which operating system are you using?

Is it possible that you are using MacOS and that MATLAB was mounted on a drive that is formatted with NTFS, and that the WD Drive Utilities replaced your previous NTFS driver with a new one that cannot access the existing drive?

[Stefan Roxenborg]

We use a Matlab pool license in ABB.

The NTFS driver is something that I use for storing photos and has no connection to Matlab.

I am trying to reinstall 2018b incase the NTSF driver destroed something Matlab uses to start up

[Walter Roberson]

I was not familiar with the abbreviation ABB but I think I have tracked it down (found a couple of of your papers.)

Using a license pool is not relevant to my question of where the MATLAB executables are stored for you, or which operating system you are using.

Your mention of "NTFS driver" suggests to me that you might be using Mac like I asked about. WD Drive Utilities installs its own NTFS driver. If you just happened to be accessing MATLAB through an existing NTFS driver then that could have caused a problem. It would not be common at all to access MATLAB on Mac through an NTFS drive, but it is possible. More common in a corporate environment would e to access MATLAB through a network drive. Sometimes that network drive might happen to be SMB based; SMB access should not depend upon NTFS though.

Did you reboot since you installed the WD Drive Utilities? I had to reboot after I installed them on my Mac.