anaconda installation - spaces in path support

[nevadarain]

Can anaconda be installed on windows 10 with a home directory that has spaces?

[mingwandroid]

Yes but it is strongly discouraged. Many things that you can install with conda will fail in that situation.

[nevadarain]

so @mingwandroid how can I install it without it failing, since i cant change the home directory name?

[stevengj]

Duplicate of #716?

[nilavra]

I was having similar problems by installing Miniconda in my Users folder (which contains a space). So I did a complete uninstall and reinstalled Miniconda in C:\Miniconda3 (as is suggested here).
This new installation should not have anything to do with my User directory, as it is (should be?) completely detached. Yet somehow whenever I try to activate an environment, I get similar errors like this.

Here's my output:

D:\ALL_WORKSPACES\vizwiz-api> conda activate nb
Access is denied.
The system cannot find the file C:\Users\Nilavra.
Could Not Find C:\Users\Nilavra Bhattacharya\AppData\Local\Temp\conda-9484.tmp

D:\ALL_WORKSPACES\vizwiz-api> conda --version
conda 4.6.14

D:\ALL_WORKSPACES\vizwiz-api> where conda
C:\Miniconda3\condabin\conda.bat
C:\Miniconda3\Scripts\conda.exe