[Solved] Mac ES Startup Error: Exception in thread “main“ java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException

Exception in thread “main” java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: /Users/lin/software/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-7.13.2/plugins/.DS_Store
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newDirectoryStream(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:418)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newDirectoryStream(Files.java:476)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.list(Files.java:3765)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.BootstrapJvmOptions.getPluginInfo(BootstrapJvmOptions.java:49)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.BootstrapJvmOptions.bootstrapJvmOptions(BootstrapJvmOptions.java:34)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(JvmOptionsParser.java:137)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:86)
[process completed]

There is no such file in the plugins folder

Use ls -a to see the .DS_Store file, delete it directly, and then start ES.

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