Where is my m2 folder on Mac OS X Mavericks
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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?
Maven 2 Solutions
Solution 1 - Maven 2
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
Solution 2 - Maven 2
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
Solution 3 - Maven 2
Go to finder:
Press on keyboard CMD+shift+G . it will show u a popup like this
Enter path ~/.m2
press enter.
Solution 4 - Maven 2
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
Solution 5 - Maven 2
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.
Solution 6 - Maven 2
By default it will be hidden in your home directory. Type ls -a ~ to view that.
Solution 7 - Maven 2
On mac just run mvn clean install assuming maven has been installed and it will create .m2 automatically.
Solution 8 - Maven 2
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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Solution 9 - Maven 2
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 file