# Julia can't precompile various packages

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589 "2022-10-11T18:11:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/21 "2022-10-11T19:58:16Z")

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And what is the output of

```julia
cd .julia\artifacts\3aff78028a0bb2ad40ebc3ae7e465a52dcbe2730
dir

```

and of

```julia
cd .julia\artifacts\3aff78028a0bb2ad40ebc3ae7e465a52dcbe2730\bin
dir

```

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**Author:** ![fuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed655f/32.png) [@fuzzy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fuzzy)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/22 "2022-10-11T20:02:44Z")

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As for the first, I’m getting

```julia
Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 80B0-52B0

 Directory of C:\Users\YOTAM\.julia\artifacts\3aff78028a0bb2ad40ebc3ae7e465a52dcbe2730

09/10/2022 05:10 <DIR> .
09/10/2022 05:10 <DIR> ..
               0 File(s) 0 bytes
               2 Dir(s) 2,704,470,016 bytes free

```

but

```julia
cd C:\Users\YOTAM\.julia\artifacts\3aff78028a0bb2ad40ebc3ae7e465a52dcbe2730\bin

```

results in

```julia
The system cannot find the path specified.

```

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/23 "2022-10-11T20:08:21Z")

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This is interesting. The folder for the artifact was created but is empty. Either the download of the artifact failed (unlikely, you should have seen a different error message), or it was deleted e.g. by an overly active virus scanner…

I am running out of ideas…

You could:

- create a bug report for the package
- copy the missing files into this folder manually

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**Author:** ![fuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed655f/32.png) [@fuzzy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fuzzy)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/24 "2022-10-11T20:11:49Z")

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Ok, it works when I switch to Julia 1.7.0!

Thanks so much for your help!

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/25 "2022-10-11T20:13:44Z")

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It was a pleasure!

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**Author:** ![Raf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raf/32/3383_2.png) [@Raf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Raf)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/26 "2022-10-11T20:40:57Z")

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Ok, probably you can just remove or delete something here and reinstall, but probably some Pkg.jl people need to weigh in about that. You could make an issue at [GitHub - JuliaLang/Pkg.jl: Pkg - Package manager for the Julia programming language](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl)

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cant-precompile-various-packages/88589/27 "2022-10-11T20:44:46Z")

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This package depends on 140 other packages, so it is a good stress test for the package manager…

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