org.openqa.selenium.InvalidArgumentException: Invalid argument - selenium

Question

I'm new to this site and I would like to request your help and expert opinion on this issue.
I'm currently trying to run a simple code using Netbeans and Selenium, but everytime I run the code I get the error "Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidArgumentException: invalid argument: user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir"
This is the code I'm trying to run, something weird is that I can successfully run the same code on a different computer.
package selenium.test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class SeleniumTest {
private static WebDriver driver = null;
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
"C:\\Users\\Kevin\\Documents\\Selenium\\Driver\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get ("https:\\www.google.com");
}
}
Chrome Version: 77.0.3865.90
ChromeDriver Version: 77.0.3865.40
Netbeans: 8.2
Thank you very much for your help

Answer 1

Use ChromeOptions. You can specify a directory that's not your user's directory:
ChromeOptions co = new ChromeOptions();
co.addArguments("user-data-dir=C:\\Some\\valid\\data dir\\");