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Reputation: 7011

Where is my m2 folder on Mac OS X Mavericks

I cant seem to find the local .m2 folder on Mac OS X mavericks. Ideally it should be at {user.home}/.m2 but I cant seem to find it.

Should I create it?

Upvotes: 75

Views: 310802

Answers (10)

Rohit Kumar
Rohit Kumar

Reputation: 1341

Go to finder:

Press on keyboard CMD+shift+G . it will show u a popup like this

Enter path ~/.m2

press enter.

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Upvotes: 38

Sneha Mule
Sneha Mule

Reputation: 715

  1. Open your terminal
  2. Type open ~/.m2

It will open .m2 folder in explorer

Upvotes: 6

Dinithi
Dinithi

Reputation: 562

Go to your root folder

Shift + Command + .

press this then you can see all the hidden files. Because your .m2 file suppose to be a hidden folder

Upvotes: 5

Anatole ABE
Anatole ABE

Reputation: 585

If you search directly it won't appear so please follow as below steps to see .M2 repository path.

Go-> Find folder ->  type this "~/.m2" and click go

If Maven is already installed and used, the .m2 will be listed.

Source

Upvotes: 13

Durja
Durja

Reputation: 667

You can try searching for local .m2 repository by using the command in the project directory. 

mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository

your output will be similar to below and you can see local .m2 directory path as shown below: /Users/arai/.m2/repository

Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.7/commons-lang3-3.7.jar
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/net/sf/jtidy/jtidy/r938/jtidy-r938.jar (250 kB at 438 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.11/commons-codec-1.11.jar (335 kB at 530 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/jdom/jdom2/2.0.6/jdom2-2.0.6.jar (305 kB at 430 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.7/commons-lang3-3.7.jar (500 kB at 595 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/thoughtworks/xstream/xstream/1.4.11.1/xstream-1.4.11.1.jar (621 kB at 671 kB/s)
[INFO] No artifact parameter specified, using 'org.apache.maven:standalone-pom:pom:1' as project.
[INFO]
/Users/arai/.m2/repository
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 3.540 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-01-23T13:57:54-05:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Upvotes: 7

vimal krishna
vimal krishna

Reputation: 2966

On mac just run mvn clean install assuming maven has been installed and it will create .m2 automatically.

Upvotes: 8

Sachin Poreyana
Sachin Poreyana

Reputation: 2077

On the top of the screen you can find the Finder. Click Go -> Go to Folder -> search ~/.m2

If it is not found, as m2 is a hidden file you need to enable visibility by typing the following command in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Upvotes: 43

rakesh
rakesh

Reputation: 4498

By default it will be hidden in your home directory. Type ls -a ~ to view that.

Upvotes: 8

Dappere Dodo
Dappere Dodo

Reputation: 171

It's in your home folder but it's hidden by default.

Typing the below commands in the terminal made it visible for me (only the .m2 folder that is, not all the other hidden folders).

> mv ~/.m2 ~/m2
> ln -s ~/m2 ~/.m2

Source

Upvotes: 17

Tenzin Chemi
Tenzin Chemi

Reputation: 5891

If you have used brew to install maven, create .m2 directory and then copy settings.xml in .m2 directory.

mkdir ~/.m2
cp /usr/local/Cellar/maven32/3.2.5/libexec/conf/settings.xml ~/.m2

You may need to change the maven version in the path, mine is 3.2.5

Upvotes: 78

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