New ArcGIS Pro install on a new computer - can't import arcpy

Question

Stand alone script fails (right click - run with ArcGIS Pro)

import arcpy fails in VSCode (using the cloned environment)

This was not a problem with my other computer.

Any ideas on where to start? Clean install?

this is the terminal output

CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
CP_FOPEN error: Permission denied
ESRI_fopen() error: Permission denied

ShaunWalbridge · Answer

Dan,

I think you're right to try reimaging the machine -- the specific errors you're getting I don't see direct references to, but I think they're part of a very low level library used for accessing archives. For Visual Studio Code, set your pythonPath value to the location of the conda environment -- C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3 for the default environment, or the full path to your cloned environment.

Cheers,

Shaun

JoshuaBixby · Answer

I get that VSCode isn't working, but the following two statements confuse me about "Pro"

Pro is fine.

and

The most troubling one is not being able to right click to run the script with Pro.

So it works if you run it from within Pro, after it is open, but the context menu option from Windows Explorer isn't?

DanDeegan · Answer

Update: I have uninstalled multiple times and tried to install at the user level. The same fopne() error pops up every time i import arcpy. I am going to have my computer reset and start again.