[FIXED] Anaconda Spyder 4.1.4 not creating folders properly in project hierarchie

Issue

Anaconda with Python 3.8. Spyder 4.1.4

When i open Spyder and then i go to Projects -> New Project and when I create a new project in C:/Users/UserA/myproject and I right-click on the root folder myproject in my project explorer and want to create a new folder foo so that foo is a subfolder of myproject then the folder foo is created in C:/Users/UserA instead of C:/Users/UserA/myproject. This behavior is independent of whether I use an existing folder for a new project or create a new one. This behaviour has never been observed before (at least I haven't read a single post in any forum about it). I would be grateful for help. I just want to have the following absolute path for my folder foo, which I created in the Project Explorer in Spyder C:/Users/UserA/myproject/foo. Instead I get C:/Users/UserA/foo. Of course I checked the working directory in Spyder in the address line in the upper right corner. After I created the new project, the path is up correctly: C:/Users/UserA/myproject. But still new folders are created in C:/Users/UserA/.

Solution

I couldn't fix the problem, but the folders are created correctly if you don't use the project explorer on the left side, but the file explorer pane ("Files") on the right side and create new folders there by right clicking.

Answered By - Lukas Nothhelfer