[Python] Great-Tables: Not being able to GT.save() de final figure as .png

I'm making a few tables on python using the fairly new great-tables library, but I'm not being able to properly .save() the table as PNG. In total I made 3 tables, 2 last week and one I just finished. The first two I also wasn't able to save at first, but that was because I'm working behind a corporate firewall. To solve that, I changed my driver from web_driver='chrome' to web_driver='edge' and it worked.

My .save() code block:

table.save(
file='K:\PATH\table_name.png',
selector='table',
scale=1.0,
expand=5,
web_driver='edge',
encoding='utf-8',
)


Fast forward to this day, I just finished the last one (using the same .save() method) and all of the sudden all my scripts stopped saving and the folowing error occur:

Error traceback:

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: probably user data directory is already in use,
please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir
Stacktrace:
GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF72BCB79C5+24981]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::ILogConfiguration:perator* [0x00007FF72BC0ABD0+444192]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::EventProperty::to_string [0x00007FF72BF3E0AA+2011274]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA127C9]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA1036F]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA553D5]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA5443B]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA48E03]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA1D686]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA1CB92]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BA1D4B3]
(No symbol) [0x00007FF72BB1900D]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::EventProperty::~EventProperty [0x00007FF72BB26943+41539]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::EventProperty::~EventProperty [0x00007FF72BB1FC79+13689]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::EventProperty::to_string [0x00007FF72BD9A00A+290794]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::ILogConfiguration:perator* [0x00007FF72BC17CA1+497649]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::ILogConfiguration:perator* [0x00007FF72BC10B24+468596]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::ILogConfiguration:perator* [0x00007FF72BC10C73+468931]
Microsoft::Applications::Events::ILogConfiguration:perator* [0x00007FF72BC02D86+411862]
BaseThreadInitThunk [0x00007FFE4D7D7374+20]
RtlUserThreadStart [0x00007FFE4EAFCC91+33]


To solve this i tried to manually set up my selenium driver:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.edge.service import Service as EdgeService
from webdriver_manager.microsoft import EdgeChromiumDriverManager

options = webdriver.EdgeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Edge(service=EdgeService(EdgeChromiumDriverManager().install()), options=options)


To then add web_driver=driver, but as a result I got the same error to occur. So now I'm trying to figure out what could be the problem.

My thoughts:

. it must be a problem with my firewall.

. it must be a bug on great-tables, as it's still in development.

. it must be a problem with the way i'm setting up my driver

I would very much appreciate help on the metter, because this is my first contact with the selenium library. If I missed any thing, just let me know that I will update this question. Thank you for the help!

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