[FIXED] Spyder changes working directory (wdir) when running a script

Issue

When running a certain script, Spyder always changes the working directory (wdir) away from the set global working directory.

I recently migrated my data to a new_user and Spyder works fine except for one script which always changes the wdir to the old_user home directory when running the code.

In [1]: runfile('/home/new_user/SPYDER/test.py', wdir='/home/old_user/SPYDER')

I had already checked:

• Global working directory drop down menu on the console
• Python Path manager
• Preferences -> Global working directory settings
• Spyder Run location
• Script location
• That there were no other old versions of Spyder installed (i.e. on
  the other user that it may be defaulting to)

Solution

The issue turned out to be the run settings:

Preferences -> Run -> General Settings -> Default Working Directory

This was still set to the old_user home directory, and not the new user. I don't know why this didn't affect other scripts (or why it was still set to the old user) but, when this was changed to new_user, it worked fine and ran with the correct wdir.

Answered By - mjp