Installing Matlab on External Drive on MAC

Hello,

I am having trouble installing Matlab on my mac on an external drive. I am getting this error when choosing my drive to install it on. Please help as I need this program tomorrow.

Thanks.

[Raphael Pesch]

Looks like it is not allowed to use a space in the pathname. Try to change your "Mac Storage" to "Mac_Storage".

Than your path should look like /Volumes/Mac_Storage

If this wont work, than try to call it "MacStorage", so that the pathname looks like this:

/Volumes/MacStorage

Maybe this helps. Good luck!

[Joel Erdmann]

It still does not work when I change the name.

Answer 1

[Shubham Kashyap]

The only workaround is to start installer with -tmpdir flag. To do so follow the steps below:

1) Create a folder that will be used temporarily during installation

2) Open Terminal application

3) Drag and drop install script into Terminal from your MATLAB directory that contains installation files to be installed

4) Add -tmpdir flag pointing to your newly created temporary folder in the following manner:

/Users/YourUsername/Downloads/matlab_R2019a_maci64/install -tmpdir /Users/YourUsername/Desktop/temporaryfolder/

Once this command is run in Terminal the issue should be resolved. After the installation is completed you may delete this temporary folder.