Can't run julia from windows terminal (Julia 1.8.2 / Windows 10)

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Hello,

Under Windows 10 trying to run julia from terminal (added to PATH), I’m stuck with the following message :

Cannot find file at 'c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\appdata\local\programs\julia-1.8.2\bin\julia.exe' (c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\appdata\local\programs\julia-1.8.2\bin\julia.exe). This usually indicates a missing or moved file.

I’m getting the same error message after uninstalling julia 1.8.2 and typing julia in terminal.

Any idea what is wrong with my install.

Kind regards

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Are you sure the path is right? (Seems to be non standard.)

What have you added to PATH?

is surely expected. Do you mean “installing julia 1.8.2” ?

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C:\Users\scell\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.8.2\bin have been added by installer


Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.19044.2130]
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C:\Users\scell>C:\Users\scell\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.8.2\bin\julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.8.2 (2022-09-29)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> ^C

julia>

C:\Users\scell>julia
Cannot find file at 'c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\appdata\local\programs\julia-1.8.2\bin\julia.exe' (c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\appdata\local\programs\julia-1.8.2\bin\julia.exe). This usually indicates a missing or moved file.

I can confirm that this Cannot find file at also occurs after uninstalling Julia (as if there was an other julia command)

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where julia helped me to find that I had an other julia install with Chocolatey

where julia
C:\Users\scell\julia
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\julia.exe
C:\Users\scell\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.8.2\bin\julia
C:\Users\scell\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.8.2\bin\julia.exe
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Cleaning up by removing those unused julia’s should be fine to solve your issue.
The julia.exe, which produces your error messages seems to be corrupt anyways.

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Thanks @oheil

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