miniconda on win10: the 'anaconda prompt (miniconda)' does not execute

[Ronald Omegna]

folks,

i have installed and de-installed  miniconda3 several times on win10 [64-bit w/latest python]. i do not have 'Continuum' in the path, not sure where it went, but i have 'jupyter notebook' up and running in a separate env along with the 'base' env. 

- i start jupyter notebook from git-bash, but i can't do anything with the 'anaconda prompt (miniconda)' prompt.

- i modified the jupyter notebook env to save to inside that env; so i have learned a few things

but i can't do anything from the prompt and i am concerned that once i get into the python and the notebooks, this prompt not working might come back to haunt me

so

i guess my 'ask' here is there something simple i need to do?

just getting started, so something hard will take longer, but re-installing miniconda3 is not doing it

feedback appreciated

thanks,

ron

[CheTesta]

I would doublecheck wheter your promt is actually recongizing conda.

default w10 cmd is not "aware" of your miniconda installation.

There is tipically inside your Miniconda3/Scripts/ an activate.bat batch files that allows cmd to actually be aware of your miniconda installation.

It might be that, in your multiple instal/delete process, something has gone south with what you call "anaconda prompt (miniconda".

That's just a shortcut dooing the following:

%windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" %MINICONDA_INSTALLATION_FOLDER%\Miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat

Of course, MINICONDA_INSTALLATION_FOLDER should be the right path in your installation!