New to Dynare, problems opening files

Dynare help (legacy posts)
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Hello Everyone

When trying to open Dynare on Matlab I press:

addpath c:\dynare\4.2.0\matlab

First, Should anything appear after wrting this ?

Secondly, when I want to open the example 1 file located on c:\dynare\4.2.0\examples, how do I do it ? Do I simply write down:

Dynare example 1.mod ??

When I do this I get the following error:

Configuring Dynare …
[mex] Generalized QZ.
[mex] Sylvester equation solution.
[mex] Kronecker products.
[mex] Sparse kronecker products.
[mex] Bytecode evaluation.
[mex] k-order perturbation solver.
[mex] k-order solution simulation.

??? Error using ==> dynare at 108
DYNARE: can’t open example.mod

What can be the problem ? I’m following the intructions on the web and don’t understand where i’m getting it wrong when trying to open .mod files.

Any help will be very much appreciated, Thanks.

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  1. Make sure, your Matlab current directory is in “c:\dynare\4.2.0\examples”
  2. Use exactly the filename the example has, i.e

There should be no space between “example” and the “1” as you apparently did.

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My current Matlab Directory is
C:\dynare\4.2.0\matlab

while my examples folder is
C:\dynare\4.2.0\examples

should I copy and paste the Matlab directory to the examples folder basically ?

Thank You

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No. The dynare\matlab folder should be added to your path, see dynare.org/manual/index_8.html#Configuration. If this is the case, simply set the working directory to the examples folder and type