It was working, now it isn't - Looking for help

[GrindHouse66]

Environment - Windows 11. with 32GB RAM and an RTX 2060 Super.

I have tried several of the different WEBUIs as they have been evolving, including this one for the past couple of weeks. I modified the webui-user.bat file to pull the latest changes on launch and everything was working well. Until today.

I decided that I no longer needed any of the other Webuis, as this one was the most comprehensive and frequently updated. I deleted the other installs, uninstalled miniconda and anaconda, as this one used Python directly. When I went to launch this one a little while later, I got errors from launch.py about Torch. I could not resolve the errors, so I decided to re-install from scratch. I ran a repair on the python install to confirm it was OK. I then cleared out the original folder and cloned the latest version of the repository into a new folder. I copied in the model.cpkt, and ran webui-user.bat for the first time and received this

`Creating venv in directory venv using python "C:\Users{username removed}\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe"
venv "D:\Stable_Diffusion\AI\stable-diffusion-webui\venv\Scripts\Python.exe"
Python 3.10.7 (tags/v3.10.7:6cc6b13, Sep 5 2022, 14:08:36) [MSC v.1933 64 bit (AMD64)]
Commit hash:
Installing torch and torchvision
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Stable_Diffusion\AI\stable-diffusion-webui\launch.py", line 119, in
run(f'"{python}" -m {torch_command}', "Installing torch and torchvision", "Couldn't install torch")
File "D:\Stable_Diffusion\AI\stable-diffusion-webui\launch.py", line 57, in run
raise RuntimeError(message)
RuntimeError: Couldn't install torch.
Command: "D:\Stable_Diffusion\AI\stable-diffusion-webui\venv\Scripts\python.exe" -m pip install torch==1.12.1+cu113 torchvision==0.13.1+cu113 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu113
Error code: 1
stdout: Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu113
Collecting torch==1.12.1+cu113
Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu113/torch-1.12.1%2Bcu113-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (2143.8 MB)
Collecting torchvision==0.13.1+cu113
Using cached https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu113/torchvision-0.13.1%2Bcu113-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (4.7 MB)
Collecting typing-extensions
Using cached typing_extensions-4.4.0-py3-none-any.whl (26 kB)
Collecting numpy
Using cached numpy-1.23.3-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (14.6 MB)
Collecting requests
Using cached requests-2.28.1-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
Collecting pillow!=8.3.*,>=5.3.0
Using cached Pillow-9.2.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (3.3 MB)
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17
Using cached certifi-2022.9.24-py3-none-any.whl (161 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5
Using cached idna-3.4-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1
Using cached urllib3-1.26.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (140 kB)
Collecting charset-normalizer<3,>=2
Using cached charset_normalizer-2.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (39 kB)
Installing collected packages: urllib3, typing-extensions, pillow, numpy, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, torch, requests, torchvision
Successfully installed certifi-2022.9.24 charset-normalizer-2.1.1 idna-3.4 numpy-1.23.3 pillow-9.2.0 requests-2.28.1 torch-1.12.1+cu113 torchvision-0.13.1+cu113 typing-extensions-4.4.0 urllib3-1.26.12

stderr: The system cannot find the path specified.`

It seems to be able to find python and happily creates the VENV folder and subfolders, and downloads at least some of the packages into the lib folder, but it fails to complete and launch the UI.

I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions so I can get back to creating with the best local installer out there.

[GrindHouse66]

This has been resolved. A complete uninstall of python and then a manual cleanup of all files in appdata, then a reinstall and it is all back up and running.