Spyder changes working directory (wdir) when running a script

Question

When running a certain script, Spyder always changes the working directory (wdir) away from the set global working directory.

I recently migrated my data to a new_user and Spyder works fine except for one script which always changes the wdir to the old_user home directory when running the code.

In [1]: runfile('/home/new_user/SPYDER/test.py', wdir='/home/old_user/SPYDER')

I had already checked:

• Global working directory drop down menu on the console
• Python Path manager
• Preferences -> Global working directory settings
• Spyder Run location
• Script location
• That there were no other old versions of Spyder installed (i.e. on
  the other user that it may be defaulting to)

Answer 1

The issue turned out to be the run settings:

Preferences -> Run -> General Settings -> Default Working Directory

This was still set to the old_user home directory, and not the new user. I don't know why this didn't affect other scripts (or why it was still set to the old user) but, when this was changed to new_user, it worked fine and ran with the correct wdir.