mlx file in Ubuntu

I create a mlx file on Ubuntu and try to save it. Then it is saved actually as a folder with matlab, metadata, and _rels folders. Why? How can one deal with them?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

It is not saved as a folder: it is saved as a .mlx files. It happens that .mlx files are zipped XML files. Your system or something you have done, has expanded the .mlx file by unzipping it (or perhaps you asked to view it, and your system choose to use the zip examination facility instead of asking MATLAB what it was about.)

It is increasingly common for complicated data to be saved as zipped XML files. .xlsx files are that way. MATLAB .slx files are that way.

[alpedhuez]

Thank you. Then, what is the next step?

[Walter Roberson]

ls

the directory to see whether the .mlx file exists or whether the folder of files was extracted instead.

[alpedhuez]

It sees the zipped folder with a bunch of xml files.

[alpedhuez]

What is the next step?

[Walter Roberson]

What is the next step?

Change to a completely different Linux release??

I do not know why your .mlx are getting unpacked.

Is the unpacking happening as soon as you save the Live Script file? You save, and then you ls the directory, and it is already unpacked by then?

Or did you prepare the mlx on one system and copy it to another system? Because if you did that, then perhaps the copying process helpfully unpacked it for you, thinking you were transfering an archive of a directory.

[alpedhuez]

I created mlx file with Matlab under Windows 10 and try to copy it for Matlab under Ubuntu. I find out that

• In Ubuntu file manager the mlx file is recognized as a foler
• In Matlab it is recognized as mlx file
• So a way to do is work to open in Matlab by going to media->(user)_>(USB drive)

[Walter Roberson]

So the copying process is triggering the problem ?

Perhaps if you zipped the file before copying, it would not expand it automatically?