Spyder: Selected working directory in Preferences is not preserved after a restart

[boazdori]

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

under preferance i chose a working directory as a start up directrory when starting spyder again reverts back to c:\users\user directory

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.0.0b2
• Python version: 3.7.3
• Qt version: 5.9.6
• PyQt5 version: 5.9.2
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

pygments >=2.0     :  2.3.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.6.4 :  2.6.8 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6     :  1.8.5 (OK)
pyls >=0.19.0;<0.25:  0.24.0 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0    :  5.4.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1    :  0.24.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7        :  1.16.2 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3      :  1.3 (OK)
cython >=0.21      :  0.29.6 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0  :  4.4.3 (OK)
IPython >=4.0      :  7.4.0 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0 :  3.0.3 (OK)
pylint >=0.25      :  2.3.1 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

@dalthviz, could you verify if this is happening to you on Windows or not?

[boazdori]

yes windows 10

[dalthviz]

@ccordoba12 yes, testing it, it happens to me too. In the preferences, the selected woking directory shows the change but the working directory toolbar shows the home directory (after restarting Spyder manually this is what I see):

[ccordoba12]

Thanks for the confirmation @dalthviz. Could you also test what happens on Linux?

[dalthviz]

Testing on Linux (Ubuntu) the same behaviour happens:

[ccordoba12]

Ok, thanks @dalthviz. I thought it was a Windows issue only.

[goanpeca]

Who could work on this @ccordoba12 ?

[ccordoba12]

Let's give this one to @steff456 to this one.