# General registry disappeared from 1.6 after updating to 1.7
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-registry-disappeared-from-1-6-after-updating-to-1-7/72485
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, registry, general-registry
**Created:** [December 2, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-registry-disappeared-from-1-6-after-updating-to-1-7/72485 "2021-12-02T19:07:51Z")
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### Author:  [@grahamas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/grahamas)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-registry-disappeared-from-1-6-after-updating-to-1-7/72485/1 "2021-12-02T19:07:51Z")
I updated to v1.7 yesterday and have been using it without issues since, but I just went back to v1.6 to test something, and found that Pkg doesn’t see the General registry (I also have a personal registry that is unaffected, working in both 1.7 and 1.6). Specifically, I run `pkg> up` and the only lines that appear reference my personal registry, not the general registry. Attempting to add a package from General gets me a “name could not be resolved” error. Back in v1.7, updating gives me the expected `Updating registry at ~/.julia/registries/General.toml` and packages install fine.
How would I debug this? In `.julia/registries` I see that General has a top-level .tar.gz and .toml, whereas my personal registry is inside a directory.
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-registry-disappeared-from-1-6-after-updating-to-1-7/72485/2 "2021-12-02T19:11:31Z")
Does `registry add General` work on 1.6?
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### Author:  [@grahamas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/grahamas)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-registry-disappeared-from-1-6-after-updating-to-1-7/72485/3 "2021-12-02T19:23:52Z")
Yes! Thank you!
That downloads a directory-version of General to `.julia/registries` and everything seems to work perfectly fine now.