Can't upload data to ESP8266

[wa8lbz63]

My old computer died so I am stating this project all over again with new Windows 10 (with latest updates installed) Dell laptop computer. Everything has gone well until I tried to upload data to ESP8266 using ESP8266 Sketch Data Upload in Arduino IDE Tools window. I am using Arduino IDE 1.8.19; ESP8266FS 0.5.0; Python 3.11.4; and COM4. All are located in the Arduino folder. I get the error message shown below.

Arduino: 1.8.19 (Windows 10), Board: "NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module), 80 MHz, Flash, Disabled (new aborts on oom), Disabled, All SSL ciphers (most compatible), 32KB cache + 32KB IRAM (balanced), Use pgm_read macros for IRAM/PROGMEM, 4MB (FS:1MB OTA:~1019KB), 2, v2 Lower Memory, Disabled, None, Only Sketch, 115200"

[SPIFFS] data : C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\Esp_radio\data
[SPIFFS] size : 1000
[SPIFFS] page : 256
[SPIFFS] block : 8192
/radio.ini
[SPIFFS] upload : C:\Users\Al\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_build_841679/Esp_radio.spiffs.bin
[SPIFFS] address : 0x300000
[SPIFFS] reset : --before default_reset --after hard_reset
[SPIFFS] port : COM4
[SPIFFS] speed : 115200
[SPIFFS] python : python.exe
[SPIFFS] uploader : C:\Users\Al\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp8266\3.1.2\tools\upload.py

usage: esptool [-h] [--chip {auto,esp8266,esp32,esp32s2,esp32s3beta2,esp32c3}]
[--port PORT] [--baud BAUD]
[--before {default_reset,no_reset,no_reset_no_sync}]
[--after {hard_reset,soft_reset,no_reset}] [--no-stub]
[--trace] [--override-vddsdio [{1.8V,1.9V,OFF}]]
[--connect-attempts CONNECT_ATTEMPTS]
{load_ram,dump_mem,read_mem,write_mem,write_flash,run,image_info,make_image,elf2image,read_mac,chip_id,flash_id,read_flash_status,write_flash_status,read_flash,verify_flash,erase_flash,erase_region,version,get_security_info}
...
esptool: error: unrecognized arguments: --end
SPIFFS Upload failed!

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