diff --git a/commands/audit/scarunner.go b/commands/audit/scarunner.go
index c26ea0d4..f7fd98c3 100644
--- a/commands/audit/scarunner.go
+++ b/commands/audit/scarunner.go
@@ -177,18 +177,18 @@ func getDirectDependenciesFromTree(dependencyTrees []*xrayCmdUtils.GraphNode) []
 
 func getCurationCacheByTech(tech coreutils.Technology) (string, error) {
 	if tech == coreutils.Maven {
-		return xrayutils.GetCurationMavenCacheFolder(true)
+		return xrayutils.GetCurationMavenCacheFolder()
 	}
 	return "", nil
 }
 
 func GetTechDependencyTree(params xrayutils.AuditParams, tech coreutils.Technology) (flatTree *xrayCmdUtils.GraphNode, fullDependencyTrees []*xrayCmdUtils.GraphNode, err error) {
 	logMessage := fmt.Sprintf("Calculating %s dependencies", tech.ToFormal())
-	// in case it's not curation command these params will be empty
 	curationLogMsg, curationCacheFolder, err := getCurationCacheFolderAndLogMsg(params, tech)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
+	// In case it's not curation command these 'curationLogMsg' be empty
 	logMessage += curationLogMsg
 	log.Info(logMessage + "...")
 	if params.Progress() != nil {
@@ -248,25 +248,26 @@ func GetTechDependencyTree(params xrayutils.AuditParams, tech coreutils.Technolo
 }
 
 func getCurationCacheFolderAndLogMsg(params xrayutils.AuditParams, tech coreutils.Technology) (logMessage string, curationCacheFolder string, err error) {
-	if params.IsCurationCmd() {
-		curationCacheFolder, err = getCurationCacheByTech(tech)
-		if err != nil {
-			return logMessage, curationCacheFolder, err
-		}
+	if !params.IsCurationCmd() {
+		return
+	}
+	if curationCacheFolder, err = getCurationCacheByTech(tech); err != nil {
+		return
+	}
 
-		if isExist, err := fileutils.IsDirExists(curationCacheFolder, false); isExist {
-			if isEmpty, err := fileutils.IsDirEmpty(curationCacheFolder); !isEmpty {
-				return logMessage, curationCacheFolder, err
-			} else if err != nil {
-				return logMessage, curationCacheFolder, err
-			}
-		} else if err != nil {
-			return logMessage, curationCacheFolder, err
+	dirExist, err := fileutils.IsDirExists(curationCacheFolder, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	if dirExist {
+		if dirIsEmpty, err := fileutils.IsDirEmpty(curationCacheFolder); err != nil || !dirIsEmpty {
+			return
 		}
+	}
 
-		logMessage = ". Project's cache is currently empty, so this run may take longer to complete"
+	logMessage = ". Project's cache is currently empty, so this run may take longer to complete"
 
-	}
 	return logMessage, curationCacheFolder, err
 }
 
diff --git a/commands/curation/curationaudit_test.go b/commands/curation/curationaudit_test.go
index 0fcb2f54..cdaedfc0 100644
--- a/commands/curation/curationaudit_test.go
+++ b/commands/curation/curationaudit_test.go
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ func getTestCasesForDoCurationAudit() []testCase {
 				assert.NoError(t, err)
 				// set the cache to test project dir, in order to fill its cache with dependencies
 				callbackPreTest := clienttestutils.ChangeDirWithCallback(t, rootDir, filepath.Join("..", "test"))
-				curationCache, err := utils.GetCurationMavenCacheFolder(true)
+				curationCache, err := utils.GetCurationMavenCacheFolder()
 				callbackPreTest()
 				require.NoError(t, err)
 				return []string{"com.jfrog:maven-dep-tree:tree", "-DdepsTreeOutputFile=output", "-Dmaven.repo.local=" + curationCache}
diff --git a/utils/paths.go b/utils/paths.go
index 79fd24ac..7293185e 100644
--- a/utils/paths.go
+++ b/utils/paths.go
@@ -38,24 +38,21 @@ func GetCurationCacheFolder() (string, error) {
 	return filepath.Join(curationFolder, "cache"), nil
 }
 
-func GetCurationMavenCacheFolder(withProjectDir bool) (string, error) {
+func GetCurationMavenCacheFolder() (projectDir string, err error) {
 	curationFolder, err := GetCurationCacheFolder()
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	projectDir := ""
-	if withProjectDir {
-		workingDir, err := os.Getwd()
-		if err != nil {
-			return "", err
-		}
-		// #nosec G401 -- Not a secret hash.
-		hasher := sha1.New()
-		_, err = hasher.Write([]byte(workingDir))
-		if err != nil {
-			return "", err
-		}
-		projectDir = hex.EncodeToString(hasher.Sum(nil))
+	workingDir, err := os.Getwd()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	// #nosec G401 -- Not a secret hash.
+	hasher := sha1.New()
+	_, err = hasher.Write([]byte(workingDir))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
 	}
-	return filepath.Join(curationFolder, "maven", projectDir), nil
+	projectDir = filepath.Join(curationFolder, "maven", hex.EncodeToString(hasher.Sum(nil)))
+	return
 }