如何阻止 Anaconda Navigator 和 Spyder 将库放入用户文件夹

Question

For reference, I'm trying to re-learn programming and python basics after years away.

I recently downloaded Anaconda as part of an online Python Course. However, every time I open Spyder or the Navigator they instantly create folders for what I assume are all the relevant libraries in C:Users/Myself. These include .conda, .anaconda, .ipython, .matplotlib, .config and .spyder-py3.

My goal is to figure out how change where these files are placed so I can clean things up and have more control. However, I am not entirely sure why this occurs. My assumption is it's due to that being the default location for the Working Directory, thought the solutions I've seen to that are currently above me. I'm hoping this is a separate issue with a simpler solution, and any light that can be shed on this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

They are automatically created to store configuration changes for those related tools. They are created in %USERPROFILE% under Windows.

The following is NOT recommended:

You can change this either via the setx command or by opening the Start Menu search for variables .
- This opens the System Properties menu on the Advanced tab - Click on Environmental Variables - Under the user section, add a new variable called USERPROFILE and set the value to a location of your choice.

Answer 2

Go to:

~\\anaconda3\\Lib\\site-packages\\jupyter_core\\paths.py

in def get_home_dir():

You can specify your preferred path directly.

Other anaconda applications can be mortified by this way but you have to find out in which scripts you can change the homedir, and sometimes it has different names.