[impudent1]

Hopefully Jucytec will swing by and check the thread, I do have a difficult issue to troubleshoot

I've been cooking with a kitchen. 3 times I've been successful, on the 4th and beyond I have failure.

\tools\os-new.nb.payload does not exist (happens while running the bat, and after buildOS)

What I potentially did to cause this:
I used an untried build in said kitchen (21015) and flashed. it worked fine
I OEM'd VNC and started to flash again its the first time the error popped up
removed VNC same error
removed rom and sys, replaced with known good ... same error
deleted the kitchen, started from scratch extracting a new kitchen (same version)... same error.

I'm at a loss as to what I did wrong. There are a few more details that I do not wish to disclose, and may not matter.