Conda uninstaller create file when directory contains space in it path

[CelestineSauvage]

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What happened?

I have a problem when using the uninstaller with PowerShell. My installation folder is located in C:\Program Files.
When I run the uninstallation with
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Miniconda3\Uninstall-Miniconda3.exe" -ArgumentList "/S" -NoNewWindow -Wait
a file named Program is created at the root of my C drive. This file is non-empty and contains (in french) :

'""C:\Program' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
ou externe, un programme ex‚cutable ou un fichier de commandes.

I have tried the options listed in the documentation here: https://conda.github.io/constructor/cli-options/#windows-installers, using the /D option where they mention space in path (if I understand correctly?), but I still get the same result.

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[marcoesters]

Thank you for your report! I was able to reproduce it and get the same file with the same error. I do not think the error is because of how you call the uninstaller. The error points to something not being quoted correctly, possibly inside a batch script.

I performed just the file removal step and found the following warning:

WARNING conda.core.link:run_script(1581): pre-unlink script failed for package defaults/win-64::conda-anaconda-tos-0.2.1-py313haa95532_0
consider notifying the package maintainer

That error also shows up in the GUI installer.

My first thought was that the pre-unlink has an error because of spaces in the path, but when I install Miniconda into %USERPROFILE%\miniconda with spaces and remove conda-anaconda-tos, I do not get this warning.

So, I don't think the issue is with constructor itself, but I don't quite know what the root cause is. I will keep debugging.

[jezdez]

We may have found the source of this issue in the pre-unlink.bat file shipped with conda-anaconda-tos. Currently investigating.