Where is my m2 folder on Mac OS X Mavericks

Question

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?

Answer 1

Go to finder:

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

Enter path ~/.m2

press enter.

Answer 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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