# Node-red version 4.09 no file access to my revolution pi directories

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**Created:** [8 May 2025 14:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-version-4-09-no-file-access-to-my-revolution-pi-directories/96971 "2025-05-08T14:39:08Z")\
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> [@tim26](#):
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> the working directory is '/var/lib/revpi-nodered'.

This is an odd, non-standard location and would have required root/sudo to install there I think. `/var/lib` sub-folders should not, I think, be used as live folders, they are system folders AFAIK.

Actually, thinking about it and having tested my own install, I think that having the working directory as the Node-RED installation folder should be considered a BUG. I'll raise a separate thread to have it discussed.

Anyway, the location is non-standard but does not look like a container folder and does not look like a standard `npm` or Dave's script install either. So to sort this out, as jbudd has asked, we need to know how Node-RED is installed. Without that information, I doubt we can help much more.

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