is not a directory error

[helderscrolls]

> ng xi18n lifeaz-website --i18n-format xlf --output-path i18n --i18n-locale fr && ng run lifeaz-website:xliffmerge

Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run next command `npm update`
xliffmerge rc=-1
ERROR: srcDir "/Users/helder/Development/lifeaz-website/src/i18n" is not a directory
ERROR: genDir "/Users/helder/Development/lifeaz-website/src/i18n" is not a directory
ERROR: i18nFile "/Users/helder/Development/lifeaz-website/src/i18n/messages.xlf" is not readable

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! lifeaz-website@0.0.0 extract-i18n: `ng xi18n lifeaz-website --i18n-format xlf --output-path i18n --i18n-locale fr && ng run lifeaz-website:xliffmerge`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the lifeaz-website@0.0.0 extract-i18n script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/helder/.npm/_logs/2020-01-24T10_05_12_527Z-debug.log

Each time I try to run npm run extract-i18n I get this error I've tried reinstalling the package multiple times and still get this error. I'm running Angular 8

[helderscrolls]

replacing the script:
"extract-i18n": "ng xi18n sampleapp --i18n-format xlf --output-path i18n --i18n-locale de && ng run sampleapp:xliffmerge"
to:

"extract-i18n": "ng xi18n lifeaz-website --i18n-format xlf --output-path src/i18n --i18n-locale fr && ng run lifeaz-website:xliffmerge",

Simply replacing the --output-path from i18n to src/i18n fixed everything