I added the directory "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs" the default in the conda config file ".condarc"), so now my .condarc file looks like this:

ssl_verify: true
channels:
  - defaults
envs_dirs:
  - C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs

Now when I run the command "conda info --envs" my system lists all environments TWICE (see below!)

I cannot figure out why all environments now appear twice. The one environment named "C:\Users\richadmin.conda\envs\TOPSS" was created before I made the configuration change in ".condarc".

Here's the response that I get when I type at the command prompt.

(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>conda info --envs
# conda environments:
#
                      *  C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
RStudio                  C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\RStudio
convertapi               C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\convertapi
icarra_py2               C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\icarra_py2
kedro_pipelines          C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\kedro_pipelines
python27base             C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\python27base
quant_trader             C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\quant_trader
quantecon                C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\quantecon
rstudio                  C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\rstudio
webscrapers              C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\webscrapers
TOPSS                    C:\Users\richadmin\.conda\envs\TOPSS
base                     c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
convertapi               c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\convertapi
icarra_py2               c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\icarra_py2
kedro_pipelines          c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\kedro_pipelines
python27base             c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\python27base
quant_trader             c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\quant_trader
quantecon                c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\quantecon
rstudio                  c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\rstudio
webscrapers              c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\webscrapers

I can live with it, but it bothers me to see things twice, one with upper case (RStudio and rstudio) as though they were different environments, and others showing only once.

Does anyone have any explanation for why the lists shows the environments TWICE?

Thank you.

################################### Some SO responders asked for conda info data:

# conda info

     active environment : topss
    active env location : C:\Users\richadmin\.conda\envs\topss
            shell level : 2
       user config file : C:\Users\richadmin\.condarc
 populated config files : C:\Users\richadmin\.condarc
          conda version : 4.8.3
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.7.1.final.0
       virtual packages : __cuda=10.1
       base environment : c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
          package cache : c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\pkgs
                          C:\Users\richadmin\.conda\pkgs
                          C:\Users\richadmin\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       envs directories : C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs
                          c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs
                          C:\Users\richadmin\.conda\envs
                          C:\Users\richadmin\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
               platform : win-64
             user-agent : conda/4.8.3 requests/2.23.0 CPython/3.7.1 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.18362
          administrator : True
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

#######################

conda config --show envs_dirs

envs_dirs:

• C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs
• c:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs
• C:\Users\richadmin.conda\envs
• C:\Users\richadmin\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs