I opened an issue to include the path of the .julia_history file in this
error: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/18223. If anyone is
looking for a pretty easy way to get started contributing to Julia (make a
PR, get feedback, etc.) this is a nice easy intro issue :)

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks like this is resolved now, but just for completeness, what are
> ENV["HOMEDRIVE"] and ENV["HOMEPATH"] on your system?
>
>
> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 4:17:59 AM UTC-7, Andy Dobson wrote:
>>
>> Ah - no - I've got it!  Now it works!  Thank you all very much,
>> especially Kristoffer!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 12:13:09 PM UTC+1, Andy Dobson wrote:
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem to. I've tried searching for %.julia_history% to get at
>>> hidden files - is there some other trick to find it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 11:56:22 AM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does that file exist? If so, removing it should fix your problems.
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 12:54:31 PM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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