This seems like a rights issue to me. The user you are running the script with doesn't have the right to modify the file?
It's the first idea I can come up with :)
Anyway, the real experts are reachable in Discord. Do you have access to the Discord server Engine, channel Witnesses?
If not, what's your Discord name so I can invite you...
I think I'm pounding my way through it...
Reinstalled (everything) and without errors I'm 30K blocks away.
More to come : )
Ooppss!!! Soooo don't like to look at things... That 300 K !!!!
I'm going the wrong way : /
What database image did you start with? Catching the head already?