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Why conda doesn't remove packages for removed environment?

I am not an expert in informatics stuffs. I deleted an environment that had many packages, one of them psi4 using the command:

conda remove --name myenv --all

However, in the folder:

~/anaconda3/pkgs

there are still some folders like:

psi4-1.3.2+ecbda83-py37h06ff01c_1, psi4-rt-1.3.2-py37h6cf1279_1

And the same happened for other packages that I manually identified, therefore, I assume that the same happen for the rest of the packages that belonged to this environment. And the problem is that these files take space from my disk and I really don't know how many and what are the packages on this situation. Is there some way to delete all these non-used folders in order to free space? Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • The command you used just removes the environment or installed package not the downloaded binary files. You can clean those up using:

    conda clean -a