Heroku command: read $Recycle.Bin: Handle is invalid

Question

On any heroku command, like heroku, heroky open or heroku ps, my system (windows) keeps saying:

read C:\$Recycle.Bin: The handle is invalid.

multiple times, followed by

EISDIR: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read

I have no clue what's going wrong. Is this an ssh problem? Looks like it is looking for a file in my recycle bin, which is empty. Commands like heroku _ or heroku login work, though they also give the handle is invalid error multiple times. I already reinstalled heroku with git. Any other ideas?

Answer 1

Appeared to be an invironment variable SSL_CERT_DIR which I had set to C:\ trying to fix some other (windows) problems.

After some searching, I found removing the recycle bin with this command:

rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin

resulted in the same error, but with $recycle.bin replaced by the first folder appearing in C:/. That gave me a hint to search for anything pointing to C:/.

Hope this helps anyone getting the same error to spend less time on it :)