How to change maven repository folder in windows?

Question

In windows, maven downloads everything in the C:\Documents And Settings\MyUser\.m2 folder (or C:\Users\MyUser\.m2). There exists some way to change the folder that it uses? Specially I want to set it to download anywhere BUT in the Documents And Settings/Users folder.

Answer 1

Look at your settings.xml in ${maven.home}/conf or, preferrably, ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml (see this for details about the settings.xml). You can add (or uncomment) the following section:

  <!-- localRepository   | The path to the local repository maven will use to store artifacts.   |   | Default: ~/.m2/repository   -->  <localRepository>/path/to/local/repo</localRepository>   

as suggested by the commented out section already there by default. There, you should be able to change the path to achieve what you want.