# Fail to register: "Project file should contain name, uuid and version"

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-register-project-file-should-contain-name-uuid-and-version/133587>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [November 1, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-register-project-file-should-contain-name-uuid-and-version/133587 "2025-11-01T01:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![AliceandBob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aliceandbob/32/50045_2.png) [@AliceandBob](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AliceandBob)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-register-project-file-should-contain-name-uuid-and-version/133587/1 "2025-11-01T01:50:23Z")

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Error while trying to register: “Project file should contain name, uuid and version”

[Zou-Bo/MomentumED.jl@18103e1](https://github.com/Zou-Bo/MomentumED.jl/commit/18103e1548b72ede750f68ab04228d5c8cdac610#comments)

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**Author:** ![AliceandBob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aliceandbob/32/50045_2.png) [@AliceandBob](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AliceandBob)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-register-project-file-should-contain-name-uuid-and-version/133587/2 "2025-11-01T02:08:44Z")

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The package to register is in a subfolder of the repo, so I try to use register(dir=“path”).

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**Author:** ![dilumaluthge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dilumaluthge/32/29283_2.png) [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-register-project-file-should-contain-name-uuid-and-version/133587/3 "2025-11-01T05:47:17Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/Registrator.jl/blob/master/README.md#registering-a-package-in-a-subdirectory](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/Registrator.jl/blob/master/README.md#registering-a-package-in-a-subdirectory)

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**Author:** ![AliceandBob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aliceandbob/32/50045_2.png) [@AliceandBob](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AliceandBob)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fail-to-register-project-file-should-contain-name-uuid-and-version/133587/4 "2025-11-02T13:53:03Z")

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Thank you so much!