Unable to open file "binaryeye.jpg" for writing. You may not have write permission.

Hi, i am trying to run this program but i keep getting this error "Unable to open file "binaryeye.jpg" for writing. You may not have write permission. "

The code which i am trying is:

im=imread('2.jpg');
imgray=rgb2gray(im);
imgray=double(imgray);
[imgx,imgy]=gradient(imgray);
imggra=sqrt(imgx.^2+imgy.^2);
imedge=uint8(imggra);
imedge=imadjust(imedge);
imedge=im2bw(imedge);
imwrite(imedge,'binaryeye.jpg');
[imr,imc]=size(imgray);
maxvalue=eps;
maxr=0;
maxx=1;
maxy=1;
for radius=9:13
    for i=radius+1:imr-radius
        for j=radius+1:imc-radius
             maxcount=0;
           for theta=0:pi/60:2*pi
               y=floor(radius*sin(theta))+i;
               x=floor(radius*cos(theta))+j;
               if imedge(y,x)==true
                   maxcount=maxcount+1;
               end
%                y=floor((radius-1)*sin(theta))+i;
%                x=floor((radius-1)*cos(theta))+j;
%                if imedge(y,x)==true
%                    maxcount=maxcount+1;
%                end
               if maxcount>maxvalue
                   maxvalue=maxcount;
                   maxr=radius;
                   maxx=j;
                   maxy=i;
               end

             end
          end
      end
  end
  maxr,maxx,maxy
  imgray=uint8(imgray);
  figure,imshow(imgray)
  hold on;
  for theta=0:pi/50:2*pi
      x=floor(maxr*cos(theta))+maxx;
      y=floor(maxr*sin(theta))+maxy;
      plot(x,y,'b*-');
  end

However i keep getting this error

Error using imwrite (line 455)
Unable to open file "binaryeye.jpg" for writing.  You may not have write
permission.

what can i do to solve it? i already change the setting of the folder containing binaryeye.jpg to be written.

Thanks.

[Aisha Sarwar]

can you share complete code

[Walter Roberson]

That was the complete code.

[RAVI KIRAN DASARI]

I'm also having same issue with that "imwrite" function. Can anyone please help us.

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Jia - are you sure that you have given the write permission to the correct folder where the image should be written to? Perhaps you should explicitly define the path to the folder as

 folder = '/Users/jia/someFolder';
 imwrite(imedge,fullfile(folder,'binaryeye.jpg'));

If that doesn't work, then check to see if the file already exists in this folder. Perhaps you don't have permission to overwrite it.

[sameerah talafha]

thank you so much, your answer help me haha in somehow thanks

[yeny ortiz]

ejecutando como administrador y ya

Answer 2

[Mridul Pandey]

change present working directory to the desired directory where you want to save the file either change in on the command window or script. like.. cd c:\folder\folder\... and then use imsave(...) function.

[Yopu]

yeah except if your code wants to write files to different directories, then u need to keep swapping from one directory to the other for no reason at all. It's an obvious bug from MATLAB

[Image Analyst]

No way! NOT a bug in MATLAB.

How can you say that bad programming practice by a novice user is a bug in MATLAB???

Geoff gave the proper way - using fullfile(). Just because you can do it by using cd() (like a novice) and not using fullfile() (like an expert would) does not mean that that is a bug in MATLAB.

[Walter Roberson]

Mathworks recommends not using cd unless necessary. Every time you cd, Mathworks has to recheck the path resolution for functions, just in case you happened to cd to a directory that had a function whose name was the same as a function already being called.

Answer 3

[Tushant Verma]

Well, I also faced the same issue, so what i did was I just changed the directory to which i am writing my file to,and then the code worked as desired. I would recommend you to write in some folder of drive other then the one where MATLAB is installed.

Hope this will help.