"...which you may not have intended..."
This was intended.
"...but should not be catastrophic."
This was done and worked many times until this problem came up.
"Possibly the environment variable BABEL_DATADIR has become corrupted."
I reset the environment variable BABEL_DATADIR.
This did not fix
This is strange behaviour. The command line you showed would write text
representation of fingerprints to C:\OUTPUTNAME.smi, which you may not
have intended but should not be catastrophic. Possibly the environment
variable BABEL_DATADIR has become corrupted. Try re-setting it (via the
Control P
