# Folder permissions in Metadata

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/folder-permissions-in-metadata/8516
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/folder-permissions-in-metadata/8516 "2018-01-22T04:07:41Z")
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#### Post date: [January 22, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/folder-permissions-in-metadata/8516/1 "2018-01-22T04:07:41Z")

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I am looking for help setting up a Julia environment on windows 10.

I recently uninstalled and reinstalled Julia. It was working earlier but upgrading to 6.2 has caused issues.

Julia downloads properly, and the console works well. When I try to get a package directory using `Pkg.init`, it does something odd. In my `v0.6` folder located in `.julia` I have two folders.

```julia
\jl_1FAC.tmp
\METADATA

```

It then ends with an error that says that removing a directory fails. When I try to delete the `jl_1FAC.tmp` file it tells me I don’t have permission to delete it. `METADATA` is full of folders for all the registered Julia packages. Inside of `jl_1FAC.tmp` is the following.

- Another `METADATA`, full of all the correct foders
- A file called `META_BRANCH`
- a `REQUIRE` file.

When I try to add a package, I get the following error.

```julia
ERROR: GitError(Code:ENOTFOUND, Class:Repository, Could not find repository from 'METADATA')

```

A clean reinstall does not fix these issues. Often, I do not have permission to delete the `jl_1FAC.tmp` (which changes names, jl\_RandomAlphanumerics.tmp) file or the `.julia` file as a whole. When I am able to delete it, running `Pkg.init()` gives the same errors.

What seems to be going on is that Julia creates all these file in `.julia`, but it does it with a different set of permissions than it has when it needs to delete files? When it realizes it can’t make edits in the main `METADATA` folder, it creates a temprary one, like the process described in [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40949686/not-able-to-initialize-julia-package-repository) stackoverflow post.

I think my Windows machine has larger issues with file permissions. However I want to check that other people aren’t having similar problems. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

xpost as an issue at github [here](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17994) Issue 17994