It says:

"M:\\.julia_history"

(This is not where the program files are written/held - they are on the 
C-drive, and all outputs are written to a separate networked drive).  

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 6:05:27 PM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson 
wrote:
>
> What does it say when you run 
>
> Base.REPL.find_hist_file()
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 6:31:58 PM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote:
>>
>> I've uninstalled everything again, and I *think* I've deleted all 
>> julia-related files, but when I re-install Julia I still get the same error 
>> message.  
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 1:12:25 PM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It is likely "~/.juliarc" that is the file you are after.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:47:16 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kristoffer,
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if this is the right file 
>>>> (/julia-0.4.6/etc/julia/juliarc), but this is what it says:
>>>>
>>>> # This file should contain site-specific commands to be executed on 
>>>> Julia startup
>>>> # Users should store their own personal commands in homedir(), in a 
>>>> file named .juliarc.jl
>>>>
>>>> # Set up environment for Julia Windows binary distribution
>>>> ENV["PATH"] = 
>>>> JULIA_HOME*";"*joinpath(JULIA_HOME,"..","Git","bin")*";"*ENV["PATH"]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Should there be more here? 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:36:10 AM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe you can look into the .juliarc file at the line where it is 
>>>>> telling you the error is and see if anything looks strange.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:11:54 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, it didn't create another one. I think you're right and I didn't 
>>>>>> delete what Julia was looking for. But it seems very strange that this 
>>>>>> error message appeared without any sort of prompt - I'm not doing 
>>>>>> anything 
>>>>>> that I haven't been doing for the last 6 months.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:51:54 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's strange. Did it create a ~/.julia_history file after you 
>>>>>>> deleted the old one? If so, what's in it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder if the ~/.julia_history file you deleted was not the one 
>>>>>>> that Julia's looking at.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Andy Dobson <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi All, 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This morning when starting Julia 0.4.3 (which I've been using daily 
>>>>>>>> since February) I received this error message : 
>>>>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>> ERROR: Invalid history file (~/.julia_history) format: 
>>>>>>>> If you have a history file left over from an older version of 
>>>>>>>> Julia, 
>>>>>>>> try renaming or deleting it. 
>>>>>>>> Invalid character: '#' at line 465034 
>>>>>>>>  in error at error.jl:22 
>>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A thread on this site ("PSA: new ~/.julia_history 
>>>>>>>> format") suggested deleting the julia_history file. I tried this, 
>>>>>>>> and it did not work. Next I uninstalled Julia and re-installed the 
>>>>>>>> latest 
>>>>>>>> (0.4.6) version. The error message is the same.   
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can anybody suggest a solution? I'm running on Windows 7 
>>>>>>>> Enterprise. 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>

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