Navigate from home directory to file double clicked directory automaticly

[Wickdhub]

Problem

Following the opening document of jupyterlab app on desktop: add launch documentation · jupyterlab/jupyterlab-desktop@71be7c6, I create a batch file that allows me to open a .ipynb file directly with the app on double click and to set the home folder to my desire one:

set JLABPATH=C:\JupyterLab
set HOMEDIR=C:\Users\Username\
start "" %JLABPATH%\JupyterLab.exe %HOMEDIR% %1

However, the directory stays in the Home and does’nt change when I open the file, contrary on web browser when I set the
jupyter_server_config.py with c.ServerApp.root_dir = "C:/Users/Username/Desktop/" and use a batch file like:
set ANACONDAPATH=C:\Users\Thomas\anaconda3
start "" %ANACONDAPATH%\pythonw.exe %ANACONDAPATH%\cwp.py %ANACONDAPATH%^ %ANACONDAPATH%\pythonw.exe %ANACONDAPATH%\Scripts\jupyter-lab-script.py %1

Let’s say I want to open a file on …/Desktop/dir1/dir2/test.ipynb with browser (page on the top of the image):

Whereas on app I just got the page on the bottom with written dir1/dir2/test on the top of the app.

Did someone know how I can change that?

Thanks a lot

Proposed Solution

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[krassowski]

I think the behaviour should be changed to ensure that the file browser navigates to opened file regardless of whether it is opened from command line or URL. In the meantime you can enable "Show Active File in Browser":

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Please refrain from posting the same question in multiple places simultaneously (StackOverflow, Discourse, GitHub) - I know it is tempting but it drains maintainer energy and ultimately you get less likely to get a reply past some threshold when multiple users do that. At the very least please include a link to other places where you asked the question when posing.

[Wickdhub]

Hello, thank you very much for your answer, I'm sorry for multiposting but you are the first person to answer me since 3 days, I had started to lose hope and I didn't know what to do to get help. I hope you will excuse me.

However, although the option name does indeed seem to do what I want, when opening my .ipynb file with a different home than the file directory, it doesn't seem to work and gives me the same result as before. (I stay on the directory when I closed the app).
It only works when I have 2 files open and that I switch between them.