WARNING conda.gateways.disk:unlink_or_rename_to_trash(140)

Question

i have this error when i try to install pytorch in my environment, i have found the file that i need to delete but, which one of the four files do i delete?

Answer 1

I was stuck with the same problem. What I was doing wrong was I created one environment and installed packages using pip install while inside another environment I was trying conda install

The fix which worked form was to let conda itself remove unwanted files. This can be done using

conda clean --all

Answer 2

I had the same error when installing PyQtChart. I received the following error:

Executing transaction: - WARNING conda.gateways.disk.delete:unlink_or_rename_to_trash(139): Could not remove or rename C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\topss2\Library\resources\icudtl.dat. Please remove this file manually (you may need to reboot to free file handles) done ERROR conda.core.link:_execute(698): An error occurred while installing package 'conda-forge::qt-5.12.9-hb2cf2c5_0'. Rolling back transaction: done

[Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\topss2\Library\resources\icudtl.dat' ()

I was able to delete the file in question without rebooting. I got lucky this time.

There are some analytics packages I use which do not have conda packages, so occasionally I have to use pip. As I am doing development work, I don't always know in advance when I will need a Python package that only has a pip-formatted package, so I occasionally use conda after using pip. I am usually too lazy to rebuild a new environment every time I "dead-end" a conda environment. There is a way to roll back a conda environment if a pip package corrupts it, but that is not recommended. Interoperability between conda and pip is still an experimental feature, but it is improving. See the following link for more information: conda-pip interoperability

Does anyone know of a package to simply convert a pip package to a conda package? This would make my life much easier.