When installing Anaconda3 2018.12 (64-bit) on Windows 10, I'm getting an error indicating that the file path has a space in the name ('Program Files' directory on my C:\ drive), and that some Conda packages may have problems with this if I continue.

Does anyone know specifically which packages may have a problem? I'm using Python primarily for data science (SciPy/NumPy, Pandas, etc.).

See link for a screenshot of the warning.

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what i did is: Run the installer as administrator (Right-click on installer to select run as administrator).in order to get...

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3

this form to install the program helped me

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Check that there is no space in the naming of your destination folder. Check here:

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I think that occurred because if you see the location of your destination folder in the image you posted in your question, it has a space in the name of "Program Files". So maybe, if you were to use command prompt or shell and for example - change directory to "Program Files", it may cause some issues in not identifying the exact directory you want it to.

And maybe, this is because it wants you to have the application stored in some directory which can be easily accessed using command prompt and which has no spaces in its name.

Actually, I was doing the same thing but in some folder named as "Setups and Applications". It created an error message saying that 2 spaces are not allowed, and so I have to do the installation in some other folder that had no space in its location. It worked fine when I selected a folder that had no space in its location.

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