# Registry.toml missing

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [May 12, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152 "2019-05-12T21:16:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![pnotequalnp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@pnotequalnp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pnotequalnp)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/1 "2019-05-12T21:16:55Z")

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Julia 1.1, Windows 10 64-bit.

Just installed, doing ‘add [package]’ in the package REPL gives

```julia
Cloning default registries into `C:\Users\User\.julia`
Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git"
ERROR: SystemError: opening file "C:\\Users\\User\\.julia\\registries\\General\\Registry.toml": No such file or directory

```

I can add directly from URL but it won’t let me import them afterwards giving a similar error.

```julia
ERROR: ArgumentError: Package [package] not found in current path:
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("[package]")` to install the [package] package.

```

Contents of the registries/General folder are:

```julia
.git/
.test/
A/
.travis.yml

```

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/2 "2019-05-12T21:29:54Z")

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It seems like there was some problem when the registry got cloned. Try to remove `registries/General` completely and try again.

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**Author:** ![pnotequalnp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@pnotequalnp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pnotequalnp)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/3 "2019-05-12T22:51:29Z")

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Thank you, that worked.

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**Author:** ![anon94023334](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/4 "2019-07-04T06:01:48Z")

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I was having the same error, but removing `General` didn’t make it work. I’m now getting

```julia
ArgumentError: '/nfs/home/seth/.julia/registries/General/.git/logs/refs
/remotes/origin/register/secp256k1' exists. `force=true` is required to remove '/nfs/home/seth/.julia/registries/General/.git/logs/refs/remot
es/origin/register/secp256k1' before copying.

```

(Note that my home directory is an NFS mount.)

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/5 "2019-07-04T08:01:47Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/issues/1765](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/issues/1765)

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**Author:** ![surendran47](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/surendran47/32/11812_2.png) [@surendran47](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/surendran47)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/6 "2019-12-12T12:13:24Z")

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That worked. Thanks

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**Author:** ![Aitotelic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aitotelic/32/20408_2.png) [@Aitotelic](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Aitotelic)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/7 "2020-12-20T17:27:51Z")

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Thank you. This worked for me as well. I’m using Windows 8.1 on Julia 1.5.3

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**Author:** ![Beramos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/beramos/32/9030_2.png) [@Beramos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Beramos)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/8 "2021-02-08T09:40:05Z")

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This problem seems to be occurring more and more often? Any idea why this error occurs so frequently?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/9 "2021-02-08T10:07:46Z")

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Probably because the initial download got interrupted by the user (or something else). Should be fixed in Julia 1.6.

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**Author:** ![Beramos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/beramos/32/9030_2.png) [@Beramos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Beramos)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/10 "2021-02-08T10:31:11Z")

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Thanks for the prompt response

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**Author:** ![tonywakuu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tonywakuu/32/202941_2.png) [@tonywakuu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tonywakuu)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/registry-toml-missing/24152/11 "2023-11-03T22:26:08Z")

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Julia 1.6 (MacOS) - Received this error after trying a to run a clean clone. Added the empty [Registry.toml] file to the folder, and recompiled. Works like a charm! It’s likely a REPL generated file!