FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '<repo>/index_files'

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Running nbdev_prepare with python 3.10 yields this error

nbdev_prepare      
Success.
pandoc -o README.md
  to: >-
    commonmark+autolink_bare_uris+emoji+footnotes+gfm_auto_identifiers+pipe_tables+strikeout+task_lists+tex_math_dollars
  standalone: true
  default-image-extension: png
  
metadata
  description: My REPO
  title: REPO
  
Output created: _docs/README.md

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/bin/nbdev_prepare", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(prepare())
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fastcore/script.py", line 119, in _f
    return tfunc(**merge(args, args_from_prog(func, xtra)))
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nbdev/quarto.py", line 163, in prepare
    nbdev_readme.__wrapped__(chk_time=True)
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nbdev/quarto.py", line 153, in nbdev_readme
    if _rdmi.exists(): copytree(_rdmi, cfg_path/_rdmi.name) # Move Supporting files for README
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fastcore/shutil.py", line 8, in _f
    def _f(src, dst, *args, **kwargs): return f(str(src), str(dst), *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 559, in copytree
    return _copytree(entries=entries, src=src, dst=dst, symlinks=symlinks,
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 457, in _copytree
    os.makedirs(dst, exist_ok=dirs_exist_ok)
  File "/Users/USER/miniforge3/ENV/lib/python3.10/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/Users/USER/Projects/REPO/index_files'