Julia 0.5 can't load basic modules

[sonicsmooth]

I’ve found the answer here:

Windows: capitalization of the HOME environment variable

I have HOME defined in an environment variable. Starting with Julia v0.5.0, I could install packages, but I could not load them with using or import. It turns out, I had the capitalization wrong in my HOME environment variable. That hasn’t been a problem with other programs (including Julia v0.4.x) because Windows programs don’t normally care about file/path case. Once I fixed my capitalization, things worked fine. It might help someone else who was confused by this. The error message wasn’t ob…

I too had all lowercase in my HOME environment variable. Changing c:\users\... to C:\Users\... fixed it.
Took me a day and a half, three reinstalls, and 4 forum posts to figure this out!