M2_HOME is set to an invalid directory even when it points to maven installation home

Question

I have set my M2_HOME to

C:\Users\username\Documents\apache-maven-3.5.0

Contents of above directory

09/21/2017  05:13 PM    <DIR>          .
09/21/2017  05:13 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/21/2017  05:13 PM    <DIR>          bin
09/21/2017  05:13 PM    <DIR>          boot
09/21/2017  05:13 PM    <DIR>          conf
09/21/2017  05:13 PM    <DIR>          lib
04/03/2017  08:41 PM            20,934 LICENSE
04/03/2017  08:40 PM               182 NOTICE
04/03/2017  08:36 PM             2,544 README.txt
               3 File(s)         23,660 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  348,568,027,136 bytes free

However when I run mvn --version in cmd, I get the following error

ERROR: M2_HOME is set to an invalid directory.
M2_HOME = "C:\Users\abhish\Documents\apache-maven-3.5.0"
Please set the M2_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of the Maven installation

I checked a similar post on SO. However that didnt help, hence posting this question.

I need this solved to solve this problem.

Run a `dir` at _C:\Users\abhish\Documents\apache-maven-3.5.0_, what is the content? — Bruno Ribeiro, Sep 22 '17 at 12:18
Did you set the M2_HOME with quotes " if yes set it without the quotes — Simon Martinelli, Sep 22 '17 at 12:21
Is this your problem? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14034052/maven-m2-home-set-to-an-invalid-directory-windows-7 — Iker Aguayo, Sep 22 '17 at 12:25
@BrunoCésar I have edited the question to show contents of M2_HOME — Abhishek Singh, Sep 22 '17 at 12:32
Looks ok the directory. To check if you have other installation check you environment variables such as `%PATH%`, maybe has other. — Bruno Ribeiro, Sep 22 '17 at 12:44
Great there are two actually. I will remove one of them and then try. — Abhishek Singh, Sep 22 '17 at 12:47
Just put the `C:\Users\abhish\Documents\apache-maven-3.5.0\bin` into your path. Nothing more is needed.Removed M2_HOME.... — khmarbaise, Sep 22 '17 at 13:01

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '20 at 07:14

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if u are using java 8, please remove "MAVEN_OPTS" from environmental variable and check. because java 8 doesn't support for that config.

answered Apr 11 '20 at 07:14

Sagansha San

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M2_HOME is set to an invalid directory even when it points to maven installation home

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