Warning

Windows has something called controlled folder access, which protects sensitive folders from being changed by unknown/untrusted programs. This means that if you clone your repository to one of these folders (for example, anything on OneDrive), you may be unable to run the notebooks and scripts for the module.

For example, you might see an extremely vague error message such as the following:

This (most likely) means that jupyter is unable to write to the repository directory.

You can still clone your repository to a OneDrive folder, but you will need admin rights to your machine to be able to complete the different exercises.

If you do not have admin rights to your machine, you will need to ask your IT service desk for help, or you will need to clone the repository to a directory outside of OneDrive (note that this means outside of folders like ~/Documents, as well!).

In order to give the specific installation of python from your new conda environment permission to write to OneDrive folders - this step will need to be completed after you have cloned the repository, and after you have created your conda environment.

To do this, search for “controlled folder access” in the Windows search bar, then click on “Allow an app through Controlled folder access”. After entering your admin credentials, click on Add an allowed app, followed by Browse all apps.

Now, navigate to the folder where your egm722 environment has been created and select python.exe.

Most likely, this is something like:

~/Anaconda3/envs/egm722/python.exe

where ~ is your home directory (e.g., C:\Users\{username}). Click Open to allow this version of python to write to controlled folders.

Note that this only applies to this version of python. If you create another environment, you will need to repeat these steps to allow that version of python through controlled folder access.