# Change location of .julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-location-of-julia/21540>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [March 6, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-location-of-julia/21540 "2019-03-06T15:08:48Z")\
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> [@How to change .julia folder location](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-change-julia-folder-location/64193):
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> Hey all, Usually the .julia folder location is in the home directory of the current user. I want to change that. But it for example on c:.julia. I read that therefore I have to change the global variable JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH with set JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH="C:\.julia" on windows. But that didn’t work. How would I do that correctly?

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