Creating Anaconda virtual environment gives an error - anaconda

Question

I hope you can help me please.
I have been trying to create a virtual environment using conda but i am getting the error as below. Could someone help me interpret this please? What am i doing incorrectly here? I am guessing that it has to do with our proxy server at work but i have reconfigured the Condarc file to SSL is False.
Could it be due to my paths?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
kind regards
James
(base) C:\Users\jamesconnolly>conda create -name venv
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): failed
# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1079, in __call__
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 84, in _main
exit_code = do_call(args, p)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\conda_argparse.py", line 82, in do_call
return getattr(module, func_name)(args, parser)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main_create.py", line 37, in execute
install(args, parser, 'create')
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\install.py", line 265, in install
should_retry_solve=(_should_retry_unfrozen or repodata_fn != repodata_fns[-1]),
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", line 117, in solve_for_transaction
should_retry_solve)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", line 158, in solve_for_diff
force_remove, should_retry_solve)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", line 262, in solve_final_state
ssc = self._collect_all_metadata(ssc)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\common\io.py", line 88, in decorated
return f(*args, **kwds)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", line 415, in _collect_all_metadata
index, r = self._prepare(prepared_specs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", line 1011, in _prepare
self.subdirs, prepared_specs, self._repodata_fn)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\index.py", line 228, in get_reduced_index
repodata_fn=repodata_fn)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py", line 105, in query_all
result = tuple(concat(executor.map(subdir_query, channel_urls)))
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 598, in result_iterator
yield fs.pop().result()
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 435, in result
return self.__get_result()
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 384, in __get_result
raise self._exception
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py", line 98, in <lambda>
package_ref_or_match_spec))
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py", line 110, in query
self.load()
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py", line 174, in load
_internal_state = self._load()
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py", line 248, in _load
repodata_fn=self.repodata_fn)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py", line 485, in fetch_repodata_remote_request
timeout=timeout)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 546, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 412, in send
conn = self.get_connection(request.url, proxies)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 309, in get_connection
proxy_manager = self.proxy_manager_for(proxy)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 199, in proxy_manager_for
**proxy_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\urllib3\poolmanager.py", line 470, in proxy_from_url
return ProxyManager(proxy_url=url, **kw)
File "C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\urllib3\poolmanager.py", line 420, in __init__
raise ProxySchemeUnknown(proxy.scheme)
urllib3.exceptions.ProxySchemeUnknown: Not supported proxy scheme None
`$ C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Scripts\conda-script.py create -name venv`
environment variables:
CIO_TEST=<not set>
CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV=base
CONDA_EXE=C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\condabin\..\Scripts\conda.exe
CONDA_EXES="C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\condabin\..\Scripts\conda.exe"
CONDA_PREFIX=C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3
CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=(base)
CONDA_PYTHON_EXE=C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\python.exe
CONDA_ROOT=C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3
CONDA_SHLVL=1
HOMEPATH=\Users\jamesconnolly
PATH=C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Libr
ary\mingw-w64\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\
Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaco
nda3\Scripts;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnol
ly\Anaconda3;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Library\mingw-w64\bin;C:
\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\
Anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\User
s\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\condabi
n;C:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts;C:\Program
Files\Python37;C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\Bin;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows
;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C
:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL
Server\150\DTS\Binn;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform
Installer;C:\Program Files\dotnet;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\130\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Service
Fabric\bin\Fabric\Fabric.Code;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Service
Fabric\Tools\ServiceFabricLocalClusterManager;C:\Program
Files\PuTTY;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program
Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Python37;C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS
Code\bin;C:\Users\jamesconnolly\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;.
PSMODULEPATH=C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Windows\system32\Windows
PowerShell\v1.0\Modules
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=<not set>
SSL_CERT_FILE=<not set>
STTASKFOLDERPATH=\LANDESK\Protect\Deployments
active environment : base
active env location : C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3
shell level : 1
user config file : C:\Users\jamesconnolly\.condarc
populated config files : C:\Users\jamesconnolly\.condarc
conda version : 4.8.2
conda-build version : 3.18.11
python version : 3.7.6.final.0
virtual packages :
base environment : C:\Users\jamesconnolly\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:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\jamesconnolly\.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\jamesconnolly\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Users\jamesconnolly\Anaconda3\envs
C:\Users\jamesconnolly\.conda\envs
C:\Users\jamesconnolly\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/4.8.2 requests/2.22.0 CPython/3.7.6 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.18362
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
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