: Data not supported for extension - error on all my sites after updating from 0.17 to 0.20.2

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After updating from 0.17.x to 0.20.2, I get the error : Data not supported for extension '' read data from Icon when trying to run hugo or hugo server. This is strange, since I don’t use any data feature that I know of, don’t know what I’m to make of the Icon part, and my production company web site built fine under 0.17.x.

Anyone has any idea?

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I’m assuming that you have a file in the data/ directory with no file extension. Data files must have a yaml, yml, json, or toml extension. The error is from here.

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Thanks, that was indeed it! Removing the Icon file did the trick.

I think this is a bug, see this github issue. The Icon file is generated automatically by MacOS Finder and was ignored by previous versions of Hugo (which I think is expected and prefered behaviour).

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Previous versions of Hugo ignored the ERROR, which was a bug that is now fixed. I will pull down that ERROR to a WARNING, but Apple should get their shit together and not pollute the users’ files with their app/system files.

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Previous versions of Hugo ignored the ERROR, which was a bug that is now fixed. I will pull down that ERROR to a WARNING,

Thank you so much.

but Apple should get their shit together and not pollute the users’ files with their app/system files.

I wholeheartedly agree.