# Just cleaned up 17G of registries

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/just-cleaned-up-17g-of-registries/82049>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** registry, general-registry\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/just-cleaned-up-17g-of-registries/82049 "2022-06-01T10:51:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![greatpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@greatpet](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/greatpet)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/just-cleaned-up-17g-of-registries/82049/1 "2022-06-01T10:51:08Z")

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Until today, running `Pkg.update()` each time took nearly 2 minutes just for the step “Updating registry” on my laptop. I thought this was the case for all Julia users, until I found some discussions on this issue after searching on Google. I deleted the directory `~/.julia/registries`, which was automatically reinstalled the next time I ran `Pkg`. Now it takes only a few seconds to run `Pkg.update()`.

I first used Julia in early 2020 with v1.3, and moved up through various releases to v1.7, installing and uninstalling many packages in the process. I didn’t notice that the registries had grown to take up 17G of disk space! Fortunately all is good now.