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title: Specify location for your custom nodes
description: Add folders and specify paths for your custom nodes.
contentType: howto
Specify location for your custom nodes
Every user can add custom nodes that get loaded by n8n on startup. The default
location is in the subfolder .n8n/custom of the user who started n8n.
You can define more folders with an environment variable:
export N8N_CUSTOM_EXTENSIONS="/home/jim/n8n/custom-nodes;/data/n8n/nodes"
Refer to Environment variables reference for more information on this variable.