# Problem kibana : Error: Cannot find module 'babel-register'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-kibana-error-cannot-find-module-babel-register/143025>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 4, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-kibana-error-cannot-find-module-babel-register/143025 "2018-08-04T15:57:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-kibana-error-cannot-find-module-babel-register/143025/2 "2018-08-06T12:34:40Z")

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Hi @medaly, this is often caused by a corrupt download. See if this previous discussion gets you anywhere:

> [@Cannot find module 'babel-register'](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-module-babel-register/137016/6):
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> Ok, this is weird. To me it sounds like a corrupted download/unzip. Can you check the size of your Kibana folder? For me it's 438MB with the default Kibana package. The babel-register folder is in the node-modules for me and I also have one under src(that one is fine how you have it).

You can quickly check to see if this is the case by looking at the size of your Kibana folder. It's usually roughly 438MB, but corrupted downloads will be smaller.

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