'Could not find conda environment

I am trying to re-enter my conda environment but I am having trouble doing so as when I type conda activate (evironment name) or source activate (environment name) both return the error 'Could not find conda environment.' This is very strange as when I type conda info --envs, I get this:

# conda environments:
#
base                  *  /Users/(my name)/anaconda3
                         /anaconda3/envs/(environment name)
macosterminalanacondaconda


Solution 1:[1]

Names and Prefixes

For a Conda environment to have a name it must be installed in one of the envs_dirs directories (see conda config --show envs_dirs). Creating an environment outside of one of those forfeits its "name-ability". Instead, one must use the path (called its prefix) to activate it, e.g.,

conda activate /anaconda3/envs/my_env

Other commands will require one to use the --prefix|-p flag to specify the environment. See the documentation on "Specifying the location for an environment".

Adding Other Env Locations

If one plans to frequently install in a different location than the default, then there is an option to add directories to the envs_dirs configuration variable. In this specific case, this would be

conda config --append envs_dirs /anaconda3/envs

Note that whatever directory one specifies in this command will become the de facto default for future installs using the --name|-n flag. If one still wants to keep the standard default (/Users/<user>/anaconda3/envs), then they should follow the above with

conda config --prepend envs_dirs /Users/<user>/anaconda3/envs

That is, this will let one pick up the "names" of the environments installed in /anaconda3/envs, but calling conda create -n foo would still create it in /Users/(my name)/anaconda3/envs/foo.

For documentation, see: conda config --describe envs_dirs

Solution 2:[2]

Once upon a time I had a similar problem in Windows in Visual Studio Code terminal when I run activate C:\...\myEnvironmentFolder with the message Could not find conda environment: C:... The following command helped me:

source C:/myPath/Anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh

Then running activate C:\...\myEnvironmentFolder gave the desired effect

If you have the problem like this in cmd console, then, probably, you forgot to set the path in

Control panel -> System -> Advanced system settings -> User / System variables -> Path -> Edit -> New ->
and add
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\bin

Solution 3:[3]

You can try using a different method to create a virtual environment, Open CMD and type pip install virtualenvwrapper-win and hit enter this would be your step 1. Step 2) mkvirtualenv

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